HAN Junghyun

A portrait of Han Junghyun.
2024 Resident
  • Asia
  • Eastern Asia
  • South Korea
Korean

HAN Junghyun (fiction writer; South Korea) is a novelist. Her debut short novel '아돌프와 알베르트의 언어' [The Language of Adolf and Albert] won the Dong-a Ilbo New Writer’s Contest in 2015. In 2019, she won the Today's Writer Award for her novel '줄리아나도쿄' [Juliana Tokyo]. In 2020, she won the Young Writer's Award and the Queer Literature Award for her queer romance '우리의 소원은 과학소년' [Our Wish is a Science Boy]. In 2021, she won the Kim Yu Jeong Literature Award and the BUMA Democratic Uprising Literary Award for '쿄코와 쿄지' [Kyoko and Kyoji]. Her participation was made possible by a grant from Arts Council Korea (ARKO). 

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Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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