Letters to Trump will contain 150 private letters written over more than 40 years, including correspondence with North Korean leaderDonald Trump has not yet announced a deal to write a White House memoir but he will publish a second post-presidential book next month – reportedly including... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-03-09 12:58:59 UTC ]
Erika Fatland’s book is a fascinating look at life in North Korea and other countries at Russia’s doorstep. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-10 06:05:15 UTC ]
Earlier this year, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya decided to run for president in Belarus, a country widely known as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” after her husband, a popular YouTuber who had planned to run himself, was jailed. Alexander Lukashenko, the longtime dictator, allowed Tikhanovskaya to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-12-01 13:25:34 UTC ]
In “Model City Pyongyang,” two architects give a visual tour of the capital city. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-12-04 23:24:33 UTC ]
This week: a thriller set in the underbelly of North Korea, plus the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Virago is publishing The Incendiaries by R O Kwon, a book about a couple, one of whom is drawn into a secretive cult tied to North Korea. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
A story collection smuggled out of North Korea - and translated by Man Booker International Prize-winner Deborah Smith - has been selected to receive a PEN Translation award from English PEN. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The longest-held American prisoner of North Korea is revealing the details of his ordeal in a new book, ‘Not Forgotten.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Big books publishing in May include the latest by Billy Graham’s daughter, Ann Graham Lotz, a memoir by Grammy Award-winning rapper Lecrae, and the story behind one American’s seven-month imprisonment in North Korea. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dissident tales from pseudonymous author Bandi, still living in the country, are very rare fiction to emerge from the secretive dictatorshipA collection of short stories written under a pseudonym and smuggled out of North Korea is on its way to becoming an international literary sensation, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Questioned whether North Korea could join the International Publishers Association, IPA President Richard Charkin grinned and gave a simple answer. The post Could North Korea Join the International Publishers Association? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
US book trade publication Publishers Weekly is to run a special section next week as a tribute to freedom of expression following the terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in France, in which 12 people died. The magazine’s owner, George Slowik Jr, said it was jumping “fully into the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science fiction has a long tradition in North Korea and SF authors enjoy greater freedom to explore edgy subjects, such as crime and violence, than their counterparts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books with first hand accounts of life in North Korea are rare, so John Sweeney's Zombie Nation and Jang Jin-Sung's Crossing the Border are generating unique buzz at the London Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been won by author Adam Johnson for his novel based in North Korea, The Orphan Master's Son. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Tip Sheet asked the author of The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea what kind of impact the death of “dear leader” Kim Jong-il will have on the nation’s oppressed citizenry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]