KTLIT was lucky enough to be invited to the 10th Annual Korea Literature Translation Awards, which took place on June 30th at the Seoul Press Center. The event began with a series of speeches, including one from KLTI President Kim Joo-Youn . Then it was on to awarding deserving translations and an excellent buffet.^^ The…
One of the cool things the Korea Literature Translation Institute does is put out a quarterly magazine called LIST. It’s aimed at overseas publishers and introduces them to Korean fiction that would be good translation/publication material. It’s out this summer, and KTLIT is in it with Charles Montgomery’s Sometimes You Have to Laugh: The Lighter…
I had a lovely lunch, yesterday, with the President of the Korean Literature Translation Institute KLTI), Doctor Joo youn Kim (김주영), Editor-in-chief Kim Sun-hye (김선헤), and Eunji Oh (오은지) from the Education Management Department. One of the interesting things that came out of this meeting is that the KLTI has moved into social media. Now,…
Friday was a quick trip to the Seoul International Book Fair 2011. This would mark the third consecutive trip I’ve made to it, and it always presents me with some treats. In this case I saw many of the usual suspects. As I entered the hall (3,000 won for the price of admission) I immediately…
A slight tiepo typo from their site.
It is probably too much to try to do to translate with the intent of promoting understanding of “Korean history through literature.” That is trying to force two tasks into one, and the one task isn’t even being accomplished.
KLTI is expanding its mission. Is this mission creep, or will it help spread Korean culture?
Today KTLIT visited the Korean Literary Translation Institute.
Some good work by the KLTI from the Korea Herald: U.S.-based magazine World Literature Today features Korean contemporary literature in a wide spectrum over the 16-page-long special section for its January-February edition. This is the kind of thing that should open some eyes. I also like the choice of novel to introduce -`Take Care of…
This is just brilliant. 10 pages containing nearly 50 downloadable texts (ALAS, the link has broken) of Korean fiction and poetry. Not all the texts are translated – If the listing looks like this: There is NOT yet an English translation. But if the listing has two pdf symbols, click on the second pdf symbol…