Japanese translator for Han Kang's "We Do Not Part" awarded Yomiuri Prize for Literature

A Japanese translator has won a prestigious Japanese literary award for her translation of author Han Kang's novel "We Do Not Part".

According to the Literature Translation Institute of Korea on this Thursday translator and poet Mariko Saito ( ) was recently awarded the 76th Yomiuri Prize for Literature in translation.

Saito has translated quite a number of Nobel laureate Han Kang's books including "The White Book" and introduced over 30 other Korean literary works to Japanese readers.