*Black Night's Revels* by Han Kang Publisher: International Culture Publishing Company

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This book is a collection of short stories by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, and also her debut work. The book contains six stories: "Love in Yeosu", "Carnival of the Night", "Night Train", "Sprint", "Jindalae Ridge Line", and "Red Anchor". The protagonists in the stories either leave their hometowns, lose loved ones, or face major choices. They are bewildered, exhausted, and lonely, yet they also show indomitable vitality and touching emotions of mutual healing. On trains, in mountains, and in corners of cities, even when alone, they actively embrace life and warm each other. In these six stories, writer Han Kang expresses her longing for her hometown and relatives, and her praise for active optimism in an exhausting life, from her unique perspective.

About the Author · · · · · ·
Han Kang

Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature (the first Asian woman to win). The first Asian winner of the International Booker Prize.

Born in 1970, she graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in Korean Language and Literature, and is currently a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Korea National University of Arts.

She has won the Seoul Newspaper Annual Spring Literary Award, the Korean Novel Literary Award, the Today's Young Artist Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award, the Manhae Literary Award, and others.

On May 16, 2016, the International Booker Prize was announced in London. Han Kang won the award for her novel "The Vegetarian". In 2017, she won the Malaparte Literary Prize, known as the "Italian Nobel Prize for Literature". In 2018, her work "The White Book" was again shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and she set a record by being shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in the same year with "Human Acts". In 2019, she won the Premio Literario San Clemente in Spain. In 2022, her novel "I Do Not Bid Farewell", which took her seven years to write, won the Daesan Literary Award and the Kim Man-jung Literary Award in Korea. In 2023, she won the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. In 2024, Han Kang beat authors such as Salman Rushdie to win the Prix Émile Guimet de Littérature Asiatique in France, and in the same year, the Samsung Group awarded her the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Arts.

At 1:00 PM local time in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 10, 2024, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature to Han Kang, "for her poetic texts that confront historical trauma and expose the fragility of human life."

Choi You-hak

Associate Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature, School of Chinese Minority Languages and Literatures, Minzu University of China. He previously worked in the Korean Translation Office of the Chinese Ethnic Language Translation Bureau and the Department of Korean Language, School of Foreign Languages, Minzu University of China. Since May 2018, he has been working in the Department of Korean Language and Literature, School of Chinese Minority Languages and Literatures. From August 2018 to August 2019, he was a visiting scholar at Seoul National University in South Korea for one year. He won the "4th Korean Literature Translation Newcomer Award" (Literature Translation Institute of Korea).