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Min Jin Lee on mortality, ambition and writing Pachinko
Original: ‘I thought, if I’m going to die, I’m going to write a book first’: Pachinko author Min Jin Lee
Novelist Min Jin Lee, author of the acclaimed Korean diaspora saga Pachinko, says she began her writing career driven by thoughts of her own mortality, recalling that she resolved to write a book before she died. The remark comes in a new interview with the Guardian, and readers are sharing her reflections on perseverance, illness and the long road to literary success.
Why now: The interview with one of contemporary fiction's best-known authors has just been published, drawing attention to her personal story.
Min Jin LeePachinkoThe Guardian
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- ‘I thought, if I’m going to die, I’m going to write a book first’: Pachinko author Min Jin Lee · The Guardian
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