Yeom Seungsuk
Yeom Seungsuk, novelist and literary critic, was born in Seoul in 1982. She made her debut in 2005 with the short story “Snake Tailed King Rat,” which won the Contemporary Literature Newcomer Prize, and in 2017, her review No Future and the Speed of the Excavator: Criticism on Time of A City by Park Sol-moe was selected for the Kyunghyang Newspaper’s New Young Writers Prize. Her other works include Chaplin, Chaplin, Nowhere Man, And the Things Left Behind, The World is Unreadably Beautiful, and the full-length novels Some Countries Are Too Big (The Bingo World) and Let’s Not Be Here.
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The Bingo World
Translated from Korean by Br. Anthony There are two people. They prepare cards by drawing a grid, five squares horizontal and five vertical, a total of twenty-five squares, on sheets of paper. They fill in the numbers in their own way in no fixed order, and cover them so the other person cannot see […]