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Bandi (writer)
Bandi (, Korean for "firefly"; born 1950) is the pseudonym used by a North Korean writer. Bandi was born in 1950 in China to Korean parents who had moved there fleeing the Korean War. Bandi grew up in China before the family moved back to North Korea. In the 1970s, Bandi managed to publish some of his early writing in North Korean publications. After the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994 and the hardship that followed, Bandi lost several people close to him to the famine and defections. These developments made Bandi disillusioned with the North Korean system and he started to write dissident literature. The opportunity to publish his dissident writing presented itself when Bandi's friend from Hamhung defected to China. Although the friend could not risk taking the manuscripts with her, she promised that she would find a way to bring them abroad. Several months later, a man previously unknown to Bandi came to see him and passed him a note from the friend, asking Bandi to give the man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. It is one of the highest-ranked universities in the world. The institution moved to Newark, New Jersey, Newark in 1747, and then to the current site nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University. It is a member of the Ivy League. The university is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has an endowment of $37.7 billion, the largest List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment, endowment per student in the United States. Princeton provides undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate education, graduate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schildts & Söderströms
Schildts & Söderströms is a Finnish book publisher, which was established in February 2012 through a merger between Schildts Förlags Ab and Söderström & Co. The publisher is based in Helsinki. Its first managing director was until February 2014. She was succeeded by Mari Koli. The company has three imprints: S&S Litteratur, its Swedish-language publisher; S&S Läromedel, the largest publisher of Swedish-language teaching materials in Finland; and Kustantamo S&S, the largest publisher of Finland Swedish translations in Finnish. It publishes approximately 40 titles a year in a variety of genres, including children's literature, novels, and nonfiction. Authors Schildts & Söderströms has published books by Finnish-Swedish authors such as: * Claes Andersson * * * Bo Carpelan * Claes Andersson * Jörn Donner * * * Monika Fagerholm * Tua Forsström * * Lars Huldén * * Zinaida Lindén * Ulla-Lena Lundberg * Merete Mazzarella * Henrik Meinander * Camilla Mickw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Korean Literature
Reading is a popular pastime in North Korea, where literacy and books enjoy a high cultural standing, elevated by the regime's efforts to disseminate propaganda as texts. Because of this, writers are held in high prestige. The partition of Korea following the Second World War led to a considerable cross-border movement, which included writers moving from North to South or from South to North. North Korea's subsequent literary tradition was shaped and controlled by the State. The "Guidelines for ''Juche'' Literature", published by the official (), emphasised that literature must extoll the country's leader, Kim Il-sung, and, later, Kim Jong-il. Only members of the Writers' Alliance are authorised to have their works published. History Background Russian, and later Soviet, literature were popular in pre-liberation North Korea. Koreans viewed Russian literature very differently from Western audiences, searching for Confucian undertones of social engineering. While Westerners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Church
James Church is the pseudonym of an American author of six detective novels featuring a North Korean policeman, "Inspector O". Church is identified on the back cover of his novels as "a former Western intelligence officer with decades of experience in Asia". He grew up in the San Fernando Valley in the United States, and was over sixty years old in 2009. His name and identity are known in the community of North Korea watchers. His "Inspector O" novels have been well-received, being noted by Asia specialists for offering "an unusually nuanced and detailed portrait" of North Korean society. A Korea Society panel praised the first book in the series for its realism and its ability to convey "the suffocating atmosphere of a totalitarian state". ''The Independent'' and the ''Washington Post'' compared the protagonist to Arkady Renko, the Soviet chief inspector in Martin Cruz Smith's '' Gorky Park'', for providing "a vivid window into a mysterious country". Works The "Inspector O" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahn Chol
Ahn Chol (born 1971 or 1972) is the pseudonym of a North Korean freelance journalist who shot the footage for the film ''Children of the Secret State'', a movie about the condition of orphans in North Korea. He won the Rory Peck Award in 2001 for his work. Life Ahn Chol initially released a VHS of the Jangmadang in Hoeryeong in September 1998. Ahn Chol first spoke with the Korean press in September 1998, to the newspaper Hankyoreh. In the interview he spoke about the footage he leaked of Kotjebis, which was included in Korean Broadcasting System's 1998 documentary. He smuggled the videotape out of North Korea by hiding it inside a pack of cigarettes. Ahn Chol revealed he was a worker in a factory while living in North Korea and defected from North Korea in 1997 (he had lost his parents and relatives during the famine). He risked going back to capture the aforementioned footage. See also *Bandi (writer) - North Korean pseudonymous writer References 1970s births Living p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its main U.S. rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches. History Formally named United Press Associations for incorporation and legal purposes, but publicly known and identified as United Press or UP, the news agency was created by the 1907 uniting of three smaller news syndicates by the Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps. It was headed by Hugh Baillie (1890–1966) from 1935 to 1955. At the time of his retirement, UP had 2,900 clients in the United States, and 1,500 abroad. In 1958, it became United Press Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Entrekin
Morgan Entrekin is the president (corporate title), president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic Inc. Books in New York City. He is one of six owners of the publishing company. He is from Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee. Timeline Entrekin is a graduate of Montgomery Bell Academy, Stanford University and the Radcliffe Publishing Course. He began his career at Delacorte Press. In 1982 he moved to Simon & Schuster. In 1984, he started his own imprint at Atlantic Monthly Press. In 1993 he merged this company with Grove Press to create Grove/Atlantic Inc. In 2015, he launched Literary Hub with editor Terry McDonell and publisher Andy Hunter. He was the recipient of the 2017 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction. The Center fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Literature Today
''World Literature Today'' is an American magazine of international literature and culture, published at the University of Oklahoma. The stated goal of the magazine is to publish international essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, and book reviews for a non-academic audience. It was founded under the name ''Books Abroad'' in 1927 by Roy Temple House, a professor at the University of Oklahoma. In January 1977, the journal assumed its present name, ''World Literature Today''. History The first issue of ''World Literature Today (WLT)'' was published in 1927 and was 32 pages long. By its fiftieth year, issues of the magazine were more than 250 pages long. In 2006, ''WLT'' switched from a quarterly to a bimonthly publication. House served as editor from 1927 until his retirement in 1949. Todd Downing (writer), Todd Downing, a Choctaw author and former student of House's, worked for the publication in varying capacities between 1928 and 1934. House was succeeded as editor by the Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Booker International Prize
The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize was announced in June 2004. Sponsored by the Man Group, from 2005 until 2015 the award was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation. It rewarded one author's "continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage", and was a recognition of the writer's body of work rather than any one title. Since 2016, the award has been given annually to a single book translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator. Crankstart, the charitable foundation of Sir Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman began suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Smith (translator)
Deborah Smith (born 15 December 1987) is a British translator of Korean fiction. She translated ''The Vegetarian'' by Korean author Han Kang, for which she and the author were co-winners of the Man Booker International Prize in 2016. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Smith began learning Korean in 2009, after discovering that there were few translations into English of Korean literature. In 2015, Smith founded Tilted Axis Press, a non-profit publishing house devoted to books that "might not otherwise make it into English." She has been a research fellow at SOAS. In June 2018 Smith was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. Debate over translation In an article published in 2017, writer and academic Charse Yun reported on criticisms in the Korean media of the English translation of ''The Vegetarian'' because of its omissions, embellishments, and mistranslations. After reading the translation against the original, Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Anansi Press
House of Anansi Press is a Canadian publishing company, founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and Dave Godfrey. The company specializes in finding and developing new Canadian writers of literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. History Anansi started as a small press with only one full-time employee, writer George Fetherling. It quickly gained attention for publishing significant authors such as Margaret Atwood, Matt Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Marian Engel, Erín Moure, Paulette Jiles, George Grant and Northrop Frye. The company also published many translations of French language works by authors such as Roch Carrier, Anne Hébert, Lise Bissonnette and Marie-Claire Blais. Anansi publishes the transcripts for many of the Massey Lectures. House of Anansi Press was purchased in 1989 by General Publishing, parent of Stoddart Publishing. In June 2002 it was acquired by Scott Griffin, founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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