‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist
‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korean novelist  
Podcast: The Audio Long Read
Rating: Explicit Published On: Fri Feb 09 2024
Description: 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. By Kim Ju-sŏng. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod