For those of you who will be listening to me tonight (at 7pm Seoul time and then again on Monday morning at 5am Seoul time) on Arirang’s “Catch the Wave.” I discuss some cool things going on in Spanish, and the Literature Translations Institute’s Annual Essay Contest (You can find a link to the live…
The short story Stab (Stab Wound in literal translation) is something kind of different for Kim In-suk, at least in translation, as it is based in Korea – Kim is one of the few authors in Korea who routinely sites her stories overseas. It is also very short – only 53 pages of the book…
And I GAVE a copy to Chocoballnoona! Here it is.. and it made me wonder about some of the other LTI Korea/JImoondang books, so I did a bit of research below. Kim is the most highly-priced author, but others are following The Camellias (Quite funny and quite good) and The Rainy Spell (pundan…
As usual, three things culled from the web in a series of short hops, skips, and jumps. • An excellent short story in Guernica, by KTLIT favorite Krys Lee. As usual, it’s a bit dark, but also lyrical and, if you’re in the short attention span theater, it’s also very short. It’s called Girl on…
KTLIT has been in contact with Oh Jeeyon, from Penguin Books, about Hwang Sun-mi’s upcoming publication of The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly which is scheduled to be released (available on Amazon) on November 26, 2013. Ms. Oh was nice enough to forward to me the following pre-publication information/buzz (which includes that happy news…
It’s always reassuring to me when Korean scholars seem to agree with me^^, and then it brings out the contrarian in me. Thus it is with this article in the Korea Times, ‘Universality’ holds key to develop K-literature by professor Joo Yoong-hee a professor of classic Korean literature at the Academy of Korean Studies. Joo argues that…
Kim Young-ha, a friend of this site, has released a new novel A Murderer’s Way To Memorize (in Korean). Aligned with that release is an animation.. Here is the animation (and below it is a quick translation courtesy of our AWESOME intern Kim Ha Ryung): Ms. Kim notes that: please do state that the creator of…
A good article (LOL, not just because it quotes me) over at KoreAm Magazine, discussing the (so far) failure of Korean literature to take off in the same way that some other Korean cultural representations have. It’s Korean Literature Still Lost in Translation: Waiting for K-lit to Take Flight, by Chelsea Hawkins (who, I should note, is…
I was hanging about in some of the tawdry local bookshops I do… and I saw two new (used) books that had been sold by some woman named Catherine Peck (obnoxiously, she wrote her name into the inner covers of books she the sold – really.. what are these inscribers afraid of? Do they think…
Eastern Sentiments, translated (brilliantly!) and introduced by Janet Poole and published by Weatherhead books is a book of essays by Korean writer Yi T’aejun, who had previously been best known in English for his stories Crows and Before and After Liberation (A Writer’s Memoir). The anecdotal essay is a very Korean form of writing, which…