A character in a novel by this author hates ballpoint pens because one was jammed between his fingers every day while he was tortured in prison. In a novel by this author, an editor takes a client’s manuscript to the censors’ office in a chapter structured around the seven slaps that that editor received during a police interrogation. Characters like the Prisoner and the Factory Girl narrate chapters of a novel by this author about a boy who was shot during an uprising. In another novel by this author, a video artist has sex with his sister-in-law, whose petal-shaped birthmark appeals to him, after he paints their bodies with flowers. Deborah Smith translated a novel by this author in which the title character is institutionalized after a dream of slaughtered animals leads her to believe she is a plant. For 10 points, name this author of Human Acts and The Vegetarian, novels set in her native Korea. ■END■
ANSWER: Han Kang [reject “Kang”]
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