Some of the other winners

South Korean translator Kim Tae-Sung, one of the 19 recipients of the 10th Special Book Award of China, who was recently honored at the Great Hall of the People, says he was a rebel at university when he started learning Chinese.

And it was only when he was pursuing his master's courses later that he finally understood the power of Chinese literature and began translating it.

Then, thanks to the geographical proximity of his country with China, he began to visit frequently to meet the writers whose works he was translating and introducing to readers in South Korea, he says.