Excellent news in the field of Korean to English Translation as the Fulton’s have scored another one, winning the 4th Annual Chametzky Prize for Translation. Just in case you don’t know who the Fulton’s are, and what they have contributed to Korean literature, at the bottom I have appended a partial list of their translations..…
Jo Jung-Rae‘s (the name is different on the book, Cho Chongnae, however KTLIT uses the authors preferred Romanization as determined by the authoritative page at LTI Korea) How in Heaven’s Name: A Novel of World War Two, is available now. Unusually, it is a novel of World War II, an era that is not that…
Hwang Sun-won’s The Moving Castle is a brilliant work, which aspires to achieve much, and achieves it. The Moving Castle is literary fiction in the best sense of the phrase. It is Dickensian in scale, attempting to describe an entire society and its interactions, even, with the larger world, and at the same time populating…
Friends of the blog, and even occasional commenters, Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton have a translation of Ch’ae Mansik’s awesome, My Innocent Uncle in the new NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD LITERATURE third edition. That would be in Volume F, out of a total number of.. well.. F.^^ A quick look through the other volumes did not…