The Tolstoy Literary Award by Kim Joo-hye, author of "The Hot Soul of Koreans is the Power of K Literature."

Author Kim Joo-hye, who received an overseas literature award among Russia's most prestigious literature awards, emphasized, "The deep and hot soul of Koreans becomes the power of Korean literature."

Regarding the reason why Korean literature has recently attracted attention in the world, author Kim Joo-hye said, "Korean literature has a large range of impressions to readers."

He also said, "It is a great honor to be mentioned next to Han Kang, a senior writer and Nobel Prize winner."

On the 10th, when Han Kang was selected as the first Korean winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kim Joo-hye received the Tolstoy Literary Award for her debut film "Beasts of Small Land" and delivered good news to the Korean literary world.

Korean-American writer Kim Joo-hye told the story of her maternal grandfather, an independence activist, in "The Beast of Small Land," about the turbulent lives of people who fought on the Korean Peninsula during the Japanese occupation.