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507 - Why Vietnamese Folklore Is Secretly A Gory Horror Story? - Kim Tran
In this episode, Ken sits down with Kim Tran, the brilliant bilingual founder of Coral Books (Vietnam) and Major Books (UK). Operating from London, Kim is executing a highly strategic literary mission: while Coral Books translates deep world literature into Vietnamese, Major Books does the opposite—introducing the fierce, complex, and unpolished soul of Vietnamese literature to the English-speaking world.
Kim traces her profound internal evolution, moving from a self-described phase of corporate "Western-worship" as a teenager in 2000s Hanoi to a sharp awakening at University College…
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