Reality Check Try Writing Fiction in N Korea

[Pamela Jo]

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.

‘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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