Consultant

Im Seong-sun's writing career took off with his Segye Literary Award winning novel, The Consultant, in 2010. Ever since, he's written an array of critically acclaimed, diverse fiction and nonfiction, such as a short story collection, The Sheeple Wandering a Gallery and their Predators, novels Moon Geunyoung is in Danger, Rather Kind People Live Here, The Arctic Ocean, The Paragon of Self Improvement, and Ouroboros, and recently, an essay collections Third Wheel of No Use. In 2019, he received the Young Writer's Award and the Korean Sci-fi Award. An Seon Jae (aka Brother Anthony of Taizé) was born in England in 1942. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford. He joined the Community of Taizé in 1969. He has been living in Korea since 1980, and taught English Literature at Sogang University, where he is now an Emeritus Professor, until he retired in 2007. He is also a chair-professor at Dankook University. He has translated works by many major Contemporary Korean writers, mostly poetry, publishing well over 50 volumes. He served as President of the Royal Asiatic Society (Korea) for ten years and is now its Present Emeritus. He was awarded an Honorary MBE in 2015. His homepage URL is http://anthony.sogang.ac.kr/

An intriguing premise, cleverly executed, makes for a brilliant read. For The Consultant, a killer who never meets his victims, it all starts to go wrong when he’s told to kill someone he knows. Darkly funny, with a fascinating protagonist, it’s excellent!