Practice modes
Languages & Literature
Pakistan
World & History
Intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life
The Vegetarian (2007; English 2015) tells of a woman who stops eating meat and her family's violent reaction; it won the International Booker Prize in 2016. Human Acts is about the 1980 Gwangju massacre.
South Korean novelist from Gwangju.