Korean-American author Kim Joo-hye has won the 2024 Russian Tolstoy Literary Award for her novel The Beast of Little Land.
Kim Joo-hye was selected as the winner of the Overseas Literature Award along with Kirill Batygin, who translated "The Beast of Small Land" into Russian at the Tolstoy Literature Award Ceremony held at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia on the 10th local time.
The Tolstoy Literary Award was established in 2003 by Samsung Electronics' Russian subsidiary with Russia's Lev Tolstoy Museum, the 175th anniversary of Tolstoy's birth, and is considered Russia's most prestigious literary award.
Kim Joo-hye's debut film, "The Beast of Small Land," is a full-length novel that unravels the turbulent lives of ordinary people who fought on a small land called the Korean Peninsula during colony of Japanese Imperialism.
Judge Pavel Vasinski said of the piece, "There are beasts here. Among them, Tiger is a symbol of Korean independence, he said, "It is a really well-written, transparent and mature, and an amazing work for a young artist."
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Kim Joo-hye was selected as the winner of the Overseas Literature Award along with Kirill Batygin, who translated "The Beast of Small Land" into Russian at the Tolstoy Literature Award Ceremony held at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia on the 10th local time.
The Tolstoy Literary Award was established in 2003 by Samsung Electronics' Russian subsidiary with Russia's Lev Tolstoy Museum, the 175th anniversary of Tolstoy's birth, and is considered Russia's most prestigious literary award.
Kim Joo-hye's debut film, "The Beast of Small Land," is a full-length novel that unravels the turbulent lives of ordinary people who fought on a small land called the Korean Peninsula during colony of Japanese Imperialism.
Judge Pavel Vasinski said of the piece, "There are beasts here. Among them, Tiger is a symbol of Korean independence, he said, "It is a really well-written, transparent and mature, and an amazing work for a young artist."
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