We Do Not Part

Exquisite. Han''s radiant intensity, her singular ability to find connections between body and soul, and to experiment with form and style, are what make her one of the world''s most important writers>

About the author

Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet and published her first short story in 1994. She won the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian and was shortlisted for The White Book. In 2024, Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’.

Among other major awards and prizes she is the winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger 2023 for the French edition of We Do Not Part. She taught in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts for eleven years before leaving in 2018 to focus on writing. She is the fifth writer to contribute to the ongoing Future Library project in Oslo, Norway.
e. yaewon translates from and into Korean. Most recently, she translated Hwang Jungeun's dd's Umbrella and Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts and co-translated Han Kang's Greek Lessons and Samuel Beckett's Selected Shorter Plays.Paige Morris divides her time between the United States and Korea. Recent translations include works by Pak Kyongni, Ji-min Lee, and Chang Kang-myoung. She was recently longlisted for a National Book Award for her co-translation of Han Kang's We Do Not Part.

Product details

• Authors: Kang Han, Han Kang, Kang Han
• Assisted by: Paige Morris (Translation), e. yaewon (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.03.2026
• EAN: 9780241997048
• ISBN: 978-0-241-99704-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, military history, Fiction in translation, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, FICTION / World Literature / Korea, Seoul (City), Jeju-do (Jeju Province), Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships