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North Korea novel wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction The Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been won by author Adam Johnson for his novel based in North Korea, The Orphan Master's Son. Last year, judges failed to select a winner of the award for fiction for
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The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the award for investigative reporting for stories that detailed how Wal-Mart used bribery to expand in Mexico. The Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was awarded the public service
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Setting a novel in North Korea must be like writing science fiction. What could be stranger than this Stalinist Hermit Kingdom where hundreds of thousands disappear into labour camps, where women all wear one shade of red lipstick, where Mass Games
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Mural showing Kim Il Sung in the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang. Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images When I stumbled across a story last year in Granta magazine, about a North Korean intelligence officer on a fishing ship, I assumed it had to
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Feb 3, 2012 The Orphan Master's Son A book by Adam Johnson Citizens, gather 'round your loudspeakers! It is time for the final installment of this year's Best North Korean Story, though it might as well be titled the Greatest North Korean Story of
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North Korea, the Stalinist hermit kingdom and one of the world's most backward and isolated countries, is also a realm where fiction making state-sponsored storytelling, that is reigns supreme. At least, that's how Adam Johnson depicts the
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