An old buddy of the podcast, Deborah Smith, a London based translator, is featured in a discussion about Korean literature and authors on That Other Word Podcast. You have to hop ahead to 15:24 in the podcast to skip to Deborah, and I’d do it, as if you are primarily interested in Korean fiction, the early…
Two contributors, the Editor and the Translator arrived at Le Café, near exit 7 of Yangjae Station, about 15 minutes in advance of our meeting. Our photographer arrived a few minutes later, and author Han Gang arrived exactly at the stroke of 3, as we had arranged. Then, she was quickly bustled off to a…
A couple of short thing of interest found whilst hopping, skipping, and jumping across the internet. • First, the news that Han Kang (always my favorite Korean author name, even if it is a nom-de-plue), whose Wikipedia page KTLIT was proud to create) has had her work Vegetarian, translated in Argentina. This work has been…
A nice piece this morning over in the Korea Times titled Korean literature expanding global reach which tracks the initial successes of Korean literature overseas, the redoubtable Hwang Sun-won and Kim Young-ha, through the continued success of translations in many languages including French, Lithuanian, Japan and English (mysteriously, the article shows most of the books…
First, a review from the Gwangju Blog of Ko Un and his novel Hwaom-kyong (화엄경). The review discusses the historical background of the work, Ko Un’s history, the work’s style, and pretty much everything else except judging the piece critically. The book appears to only be in Korean, so use this review as a way…
Over in Vietnam they are reporting that both Kim Young-ha and Han Kang have just been translated into Vietnamese Best seller books from South Korea including Kim Young-ha’s The Quiz Show and Han Kang’s Vegetarian have been translated into Vietnamese and are in stores throughout the country as of yesterday. Also, something I twittered yesterday,…