It’s my bi-weekly piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog. This week the article is BRIGHT LIES, BIG CITY: KOREAN AUTHORS AND SEOUL. Below you will find additional information on the books/stories I mentioned on the LARB Blog .Here’s an excerpt and below that the information on all the works mentioned in the…
Awesome, someone made a very short webtoon out of Kim Young-ha’s amusing short story, Whatever Happened to the Guy Stuck in the Elevator. I’m currently trying to argue this story back into a paper I’m co-writing, and finding this just amused the heck out of me, and summarizes the story surprisingly well… This short book (which…
(Charles Montgomery charles@ktlit.com) What in the name of God is wrong with Asia Publishers and Amazon and what is it in their interaction(s) that stops them from selling Korean literature in translation? Today I wrote an article about Cheon Myeong-kwan and his excellent book Homecoming (review) so he went to Amazon and ordered it. Amazon promptly…
And so I did in the annual LTI Korea Video Contest ‘Visualize ME!” with my entry on Kim Yu-Jeong’s “The Heat of the Sun” a tragic story of love and illness in colonial Korea. Also, I might note, a story that is available from LTI Korea’s brilliant “classical literature” online collection. I really didn’t see…
I first noticed this at the indispensible Literary Saloon in a post titled International Dublin Literary Award nominations ( Hat tip to the inevitable^^ M.A.Orthofer). The article mentions an award given annually by the Dublin City Council. The list of nominated books has come out, and for those of us who love translated lKorean fiction the results are not…
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By Charles Montgomery and 이채원 Every year KTLIT visits the Seoul International Book Fair, but this year the event was both a bit smaller and more scattered than in previous years, due to the MERS panic of the previous summer, which resulted in postponement and meant that several major participants were scheduled elsewhere. On the…
Last Saturday I was lucky enough to moderate a Seoul ABC event with three Korean authors: Hwang Jung-eun – ‘Kong’s Garden’ 황정은- “양의 미래” Yun I-hyeong – ‘Danny’ 윤이형-“대니” Cheon Myeong-kwan – ‘Homecoming’ 천명관-“퇴근” The interview section of that event is below, with the audience Q&A to follow tomorrow.. Seoul ABC events are held regularly…
Tip of the hat and waggle of the walking stick to the fearless translators at the blog subject object verb for noting that, “Two books from the Dalkey Archive Press Library of Korean Literature, Lee Ki-ho’s At Least We Can Apologize (tr. by Chris Dykas) and Jang Eun-jin’s No One writes Back (tr. by Jung Yewon),…
More exciting additions from our write Jennifer has also explored some poetry^^. KTLIT seems to have temporarily lost links to some of Kim Young-ha’s work, but Jennifer gives us a new one! All of these addidtions come from Words Without Borders, except for “Castella.” Being bolder than I, Jennifer has also FICTION Han Kang: The Vegetarian (excerpt) Han…