Coming into the New Year World Literature Today has posted its list of 75 Notable Translations 2012. What seems most notable to me, is its complete exclusion of the Korean literature translated this year. Really? The year after Please Look After Mom blew Korean literature onto the international scene and no mention of Korean fiction;…
One of the best collections of Korean women’s fiction, maybe the best one, Words of Farewell, translated, like Wayfarer, By Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton. It’s 278 pages with 7 stories by three authors. It is up there with Wayfarer and Questioning Minds if you’re interested in female fiction Words of Farewell is a collection of…
Wayfarer: New Fiction by Korean Women is edited by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, which is typically an indication that the contents will be of high value and quality. The introduction, which is uncredited but sounds like the work of the Fultons, is a quick gloss of the historical position that women writers inhabited; to put…
After choking on a question the week before (“what authors are in the collection Waxen Wings?”), I came back last week to answer the question and describe the book (edited by Bruce Fulton). You can hear that segment in its entirety, below. https://www.ktlit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/120306_CharlesM.mp3 iPod or download here
Strange Oh Jung-hee wasn’t there, because she’s had a quite a great deal translated, but now she is, and if you have any additional info on her, feel free to send it to me. It looks a little like this: Oh Jung-hee From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oh Jung-Hee Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea…
A new project. To find all the places online where you can read translated Korean Modern Literature, free ( Here are the works so far (I still have to get all the Korea Journal articles before 1989 and many of the works translated by Brother Anthony). If you know of a work that is NOT…
Waxen Wings: The Acta Korean Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea, edited by Bruce Fulton, is a breakthrough in the translation and publishing of Korean short stories into English. It is the first collection of such stories that I have read in which it seemed that the criteria for choosing works included a simple analysis…
Bruce Fulton discusses “yoryu chakka ” or women’s literature in Korea.
The Portable Library of Korean Literature • Short Fiction • 22 • Jimoondang Publishing • Seoul The Portable Library of Korean Literatures’ twenty-second imprint is Chinatown by Oh Jung Hee (Also romanized as O chonghui, O Chong-hui). This contains three stories, the eponymous Chinatown, Wayfarer, and The Release. These stories have been translated by the…