In 2016 he won the New Writers Award for his first story and subsequently published a successful collection of short stories. He grew up in the conservative city of Daegu, before moving to Seoul in his twenties and studying French and journalism. Sang Young Park, born in 1988, is one of South Korea’s most high-profile young writers. As Oriol and I plan to travel to the Republic of Korea in 2024 and I enjoyed his first book, I decided to go and have a listen. Being gay, he is one of the, if not the, first authors in South Korea to write novels with homosexuality as a theme. The bi-annual literary festival Passa Porta in Brussels invited Sang Young Park to talk about his previous book ‘ Love in the Big City‘ and his new book ‘ Make Me One Dimensional‘.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |