Publishers Lunch
Man
Asian Literary Prize winner for the novel Please
Look After Mom Shin
Kyung-sook admitted
that her short story "Legend," published in a 1996 collection, copies
from a work by the late Yukio Mishima. "As I compared the sentences I
couldn't believe it myself," she told the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper.
"I cannot trust my own memory" about reading Mishima, she said.
"I sincerely apologize to the literary writer who raised the issue as well
as all my acquaintances, and above all, many readers who read my novels....
Everything is my fault."
Changbi Publishers is removing the current
edition of the story collection from the market and plans to release a new
edition that omits the story in question.
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