Books By Wan-so Pak - Author

Park Wan-suh (1931-2011) broke into Korea's literary scene in the 1970s and in 1981 received the prestigious Yi Sang Literary Award for her novel Mother's Stake. Her prolific career included more than 150 short stories and novellas and close to twenty novels. Her works in translation include My Very Last Possession and The Naked Tree.

Yu Young-nan is a freelance translator living in Seoul. She has translated five Korean novels into English, including Park Wan-suh's The Naked Tree and Yom Sang-seop's Three Generations. Yu was awarded the Daesan Literature Prize for her translation of Yi In-hwa's Everlasting Empire.

Stephen J. Epstein is associate professor and director of the Asian Languages and Cultures Programme at the Victoria University of Wellington.