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How Do You Write a Realistic Novel About North Korea?

WORDS Posted: March 12, 2014 12:58 am

“The problem with North Korea journalism is that you can write almost anything and almost nobody knows if it’s bunk. Then you have North Korea fiction, where you can paint a very vivid reality and readers, I imagine, will want to believe that it’s 100 percent true.” Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master’s Son, talks about how he dealt with the challenge.

WORDS Published: 03.07.14

Read the story in The Washington Post Published: 03.07.14

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