Poet Go Eun (Ko Un) Leads the Translation Charge

An interesting article from Han Cinema

Ko Un

Ko Un

The Korean author whose works were introduced overseas the most is poet Go Eun. ….. 51 books by Go have been published or are scheduled to come out abroad.

His poem collections such as “Maninbo”, “Momentary Flower”, “Hwaeomgyeong”, “South and North Korea”, and others have been introduced to foreign readers in 15 different languages.

Fourteen of them were translated into English, seven into German, six into Spanish and four into Swedish.

This means that Go/Ko (folks, can we please agree on Romanization some time before the world ends?) has now surpassed previous champ Yi Munyol whose count is 50 books in 16 languages.