Do they know it’s Xmas? (Y/N) : Int’l YA in Words Without Borders
UPDATE: Now you can hear full audio and read a synopsis of the panel discussion for “Around the Globe”: International Diversity in YA Writing held at the New York Public Library last Wednesday....
View ArticleI Know Only Myself
I’ve been a little quiet on here lately because I’ve been all but buried under overlapping projects and deadlines. The moment one thing is finished, the next is waiting, and in some cases I’ve had to...
View ArticleComparative Translation, or as Fozzie Bear Would Say…
One of the great advantages of poetry and short fiction in translation is that the shorter format makes comparative translation more viable. Some classic works of Korean fiction have multiple...
View ArticleHwang Sok-yong’s Princess Bari (tr. Sora) Available for Pre-order
UPDATE: Please note that Amazon UK has a different release date for the book: April 27, 2015. The English translation of Hwang Sok-yong’s Princess Bari (바리데기, 창비 2007) tr. by Sora Kim-Russell),...
View ArticleKim Han-min’s Tell Me Where to Go (tr. Jamie & Sora) on WWB
The February issue of Words Without Borders is out now, and it includes Jamie and Sora’s latest super team translation, an excerpt from Kim Han-min’s Tell Me Where To Go. From WWB: February brings our...
View Articleboingboing ❤️ Korea this week: Kim Youngha and the Korean Film Archive get...
Two great profiles of K-stuff by Colin Marshall on boingboing this week: Watch 50 Years of Korean Film Online The Korean Film Archive’s YouTube channel has been around for a while, to the delight of...
View ArticleUntranslatable Unmentionables
This morning I found out the hard way that there’s a limit to what you can discuss on the radio in Korea. I was invited to give an interview on EBS’s Morning Special (EBS Radio 104.5 MHz), which is...
View Article“The Spectacle of Female Aggression” via Korea Research Cafe
Evelyn Shih of Korea Research Cafe and PHOTOPOS wrote a great piece about kick-ass women in Korean film in the 60s. Seems My Wife is a Gangster (조폭 마누라, 2001) has a much more interesting genealogy than...
View ArticleIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 | Booktrust
Congratulations to all the authors and translators on the long list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015! And, of course, special ups to The Investigation by J.M. Lee, tr. by Kim Chi-young...
View ArticleAshes and Red and MERS
I suppose I should be reporting something on the ground about this whole MERS scare, but so far the only way it has impacted me is that everywhere I’ve gone this week has been noticeably less...
View Articleendless summer finally ending at ALTA
I hate the heat. Especially nasty sticky heat. So how have I managed to base my life and work on places with sweltering, steamy summers? This is me: But we have actually been very bizzy buzzy bizzy (an...
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Huzzah for all, esp @spacenakji and @baesuah ! https://t.co/WzgwkuTMQ8 — subject object verb (@subjobjverb) December 12, 2015
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