▲ Writer Bernard Werber
“When I write my work, I always keep in mind that readers in Korea will read it.”
Bernard Werber, the 'author that Koreans love,' set a new record.
Yesterday (2nd), publisher 'Open Books' announced that Bernard Werber's Korean version of the book had surpassed 3,000 copies. 'Print (刷)' is a unit that indicates the number of times the same work has been printed.
Berber's works have sold over 12.5 million copies in Korea, starting with 'Ant', which was translated and published in 1993, and each of 'Ant', 'Brain', 'God', and 'Tree' sold over 1 million copies.
This is a surprising number considering the situation in the publishing world where it is difficult for novels by popular authors to exceed 5,000 to 10,000 copies.
As a domestic writer, novelist Eun Hee-kyung's 1995 novel 'The Gift of a Bird' produced about 100 prints as of July 2021, and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian' produced about 35 prints as of 2016. known to be
Berber's work has been translated into 35 languages and has sold over 23 million copies worldwide. More than half of them were sold in Korea.
Based on a thick fan base, Berber was also selected as the number 1 in Kyobo Bookstore's cumulative sales volume of novels by domestic and foreign authors for 10 years in 2016, and recently published a new work, 'Civilization'.
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(Photo = Yonhap News)