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The South Korean writer Han Kang and her translator Deborah Smith won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016 for their debut collaboration The Vegetarian. This year they are nominated for The White Book. It's a meditation on the colour white, an account of time the author spent in the city of Warsaw and an act of memory for the sister that Kang never knew. Han Kang's mother, when she was 22, gave birth to a premature baby girl who died two hours later. The White Book is a memorial to that child and a celebration of her short life. Brian McCluskey spoke to Deborah Smith and Han Kang.

(Picture: Cover of The White Book; Credit: Man Booker International)