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34. Han Kang's Nobel Prize Controversy: A Translator's Perspective
This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.
Han Kang's The Vegetarian can be purchased here.
The basis of Nobel laureate Han Kang's The Vegetarian is a line by Korean poet Yi Sang: "I believe that humans should be plants."
But some, like today's interviewee, believe that humans should be cats.
A Meow Library translator has taken exception to Han Kang being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, citing the many errors in the English editions of The Vegetarian and her other, lesser-known works. Certain that the Nobel committee is unfamiliar with her books in their original Korean…
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