The Booker Prizes | A Halloween Special: Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Spooky season is upon us. While the Booker Prizes' archive might not be filled to the rafters with tales of horror, Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny is certainly ghostly and horrifying – a perfect read for this time of year. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, Cursed Bunny, translated from Korean to English by Anton Hur, presents a collection of fantastically surreal stories that address the very real horrors of capitalism and the patriarchy.
In this episode Jo and James talk about:
- Their own Halloween traditions
- Bora Chung and her background in writing
- The unexpected way the book found its way to western readers
- The stories in this collection, and which are their favourites
- Their theories on themes throughout the book and what the author is trying to say
- Whether these tales of terror are going to keep them up at night
Reading list:
- Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/cursed-bunny
- Hags by Victoria Smith
Further viewing:
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, directed by Park Chan-wook
- Old Boy, directed by Park Chan-wook
- Lady Vengeance, directed by Park Chan-wook
- Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho
- Memories of Murder, directed by Bong Joon-ho
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-17-halloween-special-featuring-cursed
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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Spooky season is upon us. While the Booker Prizes' archive might not be filled to the rafters with tales of horror, Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny is certainly ghostly and horrifying – a perfect read for this time of year. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, Cursed Bunny, translated from Korean to English by Anton Hur, presents a collection of fantastically surreal stories that address the very real horrors of capitalism and the patriarchy.
In this episode Jo and James talk about:
- Their own Halloween traditions
- Bora Chung and her background in writing
- The unexpected way the book found its way to western readers
- The stories in this collection, and which are their favourites
- Their theories on themes throughout the book and what the author is trying to say
- Whether these tales of terror are going to keep them up at night
Reading list:
- Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/cursed-bunny
- Hags by Victoria Smith
Further viewing:
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, directed by Park Chan-wook
- Old Boy, directed by Park Chan-wook
- Lady Vengeance, directed by Park Chan-wook
- Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho
- Memories of Murder, directed by Bong Joon-ho
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-17-halloween-special-featuring-cursed
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The Booker Prizes on TikTok: tiktok.com/@thebookerprizes
The Booker Prizes on Twitter: twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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