Things found on the web in random hops, skips, and jumps. Because that’s how we roll. • Oldish. but the Three Percent Blog talks a little bit about the Dalkey Archive Press collection of Korean translations. It is the second segment of the blog and begins at about 11:05. This is very interesting as…
A totally awesome collection of 10 books, sold elsewhere only individually, for only $65. But.. it’s only available for three more days, so take advantage of it now. Here is the whole deal as explained by Dalkey: Library of Korean Literature, 10-volume set Volumes 1-10 Special offer available January 17-31: buy 10 volumes for $65 and enter Coupon codeLOK10FOR65 at checkout…
As KTLIT tweeted yesterday (yes, you can follow KTLIT on twitter at @KTLIT): Park Wan-suh’s Lonesome You in @ltikorea /Dalkey Archive collection to publish November, is immediately the best selection of her work! And it is true, partly because Lonesome You is the most complete volume of Park Wan-suh’s (the way she chose to Romanize…
NOTE: This book is currently only available for pre-order. Kim Won-il’s House With a Sunken Courtyard nearly redefines the genre of translated pundan munhak (separation literature) family fiction in Korea (LOL.. which is a lot of words to describe a ‘genre’). I hope, as I read my way through the galley’s of the Dalkey Archive…
An awesome update on Dalkey Archive Press. After a bit of quiet Dalkey is still on track to release 25 works of modern Korean literature, with the first batch of 10 due on September 30th, 2013 (the 26th, according to Amazon) and the next 15 due exactly one year later. This is an awesome looking…
I found a combination of thoughts from Professor Kim Seong-kon of SNU quite intriguing (for out-of-country folks, you should know that Korea University education is quite hierarchical and SNU is considered the cream of the crop, and thus what their professors say is either influential or represents considered wisdom). He was discussing the laudable LTI…
The Korea Herald reported, a few days ago, that the Dalkey Archive Press and LTI Korea were about to finalize a list of 25 books to be translated from Korean and simultaneously published in English, beginning with a list of eight authors. A joint project with Korea Literature Translation Institute, the series will consist of…