When I start feeling sorry for myself I remember writing in English gives me a tremendous advantage. There are so many writer minds out there that struggle to get heard.
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‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist
The long read: Before I fled south, I spent years as an aspiring fiction writer in the hermit kingdom. I worked hard – but literary glory kept eluding me
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