koreanlit1-9, Exercise 2: Two writers (samples; yours may pick others)

Model answer:

Kim Young-ha: Your Republic Is Calling You (2006), a crime-fiction-style novel about a North Korean spy and his family in Seoul; Manhae Literary Award (2007). Hedges and gaps: the film adaptation is tagged "in progress" with a "when?" marker; the awards are inconsistent (the translations section says Brother Has Returned won the Yi Sang Award in 2004, but the awards list gives that year's prize as the Lee San Award); the article names a translator for only one English edition (Krys Lee, Diary of a Murderer).

Bora Chung: Cursed Bunny, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin, 2022); shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. Hedges and gaps: the article says the stories "borrow from different genres, including magical realism, horror and science fiction" and does not call her purely a horror writer; its bibliography is marked "incomplete".

Cho Nam-joo: Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (2016); longlisted for the US National Book Award for Translated Literature (2020). Hedges: sales are given only to November 2018 (more than 1 million copies); the article's plot section is flagged for excessive detail; the article names no translator.

Sources: Wikipedia, Kim Young-ha; Bora Chung; Kim Ji-young, Born 1982.