Han Kang has won the Man Booker Prize for her book, The Vegetarian. Kang is a South Korean novelist, and will be sharing the 50,000 British pound prize (about $72,000) with her English translator, Deborah Smith.
Tag: Literary News
Controversy and Technology: Your Weekly News Roundup by Emily Ramser
Last year, Hooked, an app that told short stories through text messages was released. An update to the app was released this week that now lets readers become writers too.
Robots and Poet Laureates Abound in March: Weekly News Round-Up by Emily Ramser
Novel Written By Robot Passes First Round in Japanese Lit Prize:
The Day A Computer Writes a Novel was written by, as the title suggests, an artificial intelligence program.
From Tech to Prince and a Library on Horseback: Your Lit News Roundup by Laurel Dowswell
Can Google Raise Dead Authors? They’re trying to do just that. Through their Natural Language Understanding unit, Google is trying to teach its artificial intelligence to predict sentences of authors, such as Shakespeare and Mark Twain, by pouring millions of lines into networks
On Pat Conroy, Grief, and Making it Count by Laurel Dowswell
Pat Conroy’s writing connects with readers because he wasn’t afraid to tell the truth through his stories, intimacy uninhibited.
