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Mistranslation of ‘The Vegetarian’?

Jul 3, 2017

A slew of controversies surrounding the English translation of Han Kang’s award-winning "The Vegetarian" have started numerous conversations about accuracy and readability. Even if there were some m...
Underdog status pays off for Korean novelist

Jun 23, 2017

A chronic inability to talk to attractive women can eventually reap rewards. That was the takeaway message from author Cheon Myeong-kwan as he addressed the Seoul Literary Society at the Swedish Amba...
Korean authors to attend overseas literature events

May 16, 2017

Popular Korean authors will get to meet readers and translators in overseas literature events, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea said Tuesday. The photos provided by the Literature Trans...
Amazon expands literary horizons, making big imprint in translation niche

Apr 20, 2017

SEATTLE - The literary translation community in the US has a tradition of being highbrow, a carefully tended yet narrow reflection of the stirrings of global culture beyond the Anglosphere. Then Ama...
[Herald Interview] ‘Korean poems delight global sense and sensibility’

Apr 6, 2017

“Many Korean movies and novels display a strong sense of social critique, but Korea’s poems have traditionally been more lyrical than political in nature.”
New books on Russian Revolution 100 years later

Apr 2, 2017

“Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890-1928” by S.A. Smith; Oxford University Press (455 pages, $34.95) “Lenin on the Train” by Catherine Merridale; Metropolitan Books (353 pages, $30) “C...
[Eye Interview] Korea through eyes of an outsider

Mar 31, 2017

Longtime resident Michael Breen looks at how the country’s citizens have changed over the decades in ‘The New Koreans’
Dylan to meet Nobel academy to receive literature diploma

Mar 30, 2017

Nobel literature prize laureate Bob Dylan will meet with members of the Swedish Academy during a weekend visit to Stockholm and they will hand over his Nobel diploma and medal, the academy said Wedne...
LTI Korea digitalizes classical, contemporary Korean literature

Mar 13, 2017

Classical and contemporary Korean literature will be available electronically through the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, which has digitalized 33 masterpieces. The project involved digit...
Barack, Michelle Obama sign bumper book deal

Mar 1, 2017

Barack and Michelle Obama have signed a deal to publish their memoirs with New York-based Penguin Random House, in a coveted contract reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars. America‘s first Af...
Barack, Michelle Obama sign bumper book deal: publisher

Mar 1, 2017

New York based publisher Penguin Random House has won the industry's most coveted contract: a two-for-one deal to produce the memoirs of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. ...
Playwright who inspired ‘Moonlight’ wins PEN award

Feb 23, 2017

The playwright who inspired the Oscar-nominated movie “Moonlight” has won a prize from PEN America, the literary and human rights organization. Tarell Alvin McCraney received an award for best midca...
Books on conservatism and rural whites up for Lukas Prize

Feb 22, 2017

Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money” and Zachary Roth’s “The Great Suppression” are among several works about the modern conservative movement and rural whites that are on the short list for the J. Anthony Luka...
Diaz, Nguyen contributing to book about age of Trump

Feb 14, 2017

Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Diaz, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jane Smiley are among 32 writers contributing to a book of letters responding to the election of President Donald Trump. Vintage Books told T...
Margaret Atwood says Trump win boosted sales of her dystopian classic

Feb 13, 2017

Canada‘s best-known writer Margaret Atwood said it was largely worries about women’s issues after the US election that made her book “The Handmaid’s Tale” the latest dystopian novel to shoot back up ...