Alice Bennell, UK winner of last year’s Korean Literature Translation Institute essay contest on “There a Petal Silently Falls”, contributes her entry for this year’s competition. Who Ate Up All the Shinga is an autobiographical novel chronicling the early life of the author, Park Wan-Suh. The Japanese occupation of Korea, and events leading up to … [Read More]
Author: Bruce Fulton (page 2)
Selected publications by Bruce Fulton
- What Is Korean Literature?, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 2020
Selected translations by Bruce Fulton
- Anthology: Island Ablaze and Other Stories ed Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee and Sang-Kyung Lee, Cornell East Asia Series 2025
- Oh Jung-hee: Chinatown, Penguin 2025
- Gong Ji-young: Togani, University of Hawai'i Press 2023
- Anthology: The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories ed Bruce Fulton, Penguin 2023
- Kim Soom: One Left, University of Washington Press 2020
- Cheon Un-yeong: The Catcher in the Loft, Codhill Press 2019
- Kim Sagwa: Mina, Two Lines Press 2018
- Chae Man-sik: Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader, Columbia University Press 2017
- Jo Jung-rae: The Human Jungle, Chin Music Press 2016
- Anthology: The Future of Silence – Fiction by Korean Women ed Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton, Zephyr Press 2016
- Hwang Sun-won: The Moving Fortress, Merwin Asia 2015
- Yi Hyo-seok: Leaves of Grass (Bi-lingual, Vol 103 – Before and After Liberation), Asia Publishers 2015
- Chae Man-sik: Juvesenility (Bi-lingual, Vol 101 – Before and After Liberation), Asia Publishers 2015
- Chu Yo-seop: Mama and the Boarder (Bi-lingual, Vol 99 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces), Asia Publishers 2015
- Yi Tae-jun: An Idiot’s Delight (Bi-lingual, Vol 98 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces), Asia Publishers 2015
- Ha Ilji: The Republic of Užupis, Dalkey Archive 2014
- Choi In-ho: Another Man’s City, Dalkey Archive 2014
- Lee Hye-kyung: And Then the Festival (Bi-lingual, Vol 54 – Family), Asia Publishers 2014
- Jeong Yi-hyun: In the Trunk (Bi-lingual, Vol 25 – Love and Love Affairs), Asia Publishers 2013
- Jo Jung-rae: How in Heaven’s Name, Merwin Asia 2012
- Gong Ji-young: Human Decency (Bi-lingual, Vol 14 – Women), Asia Publishers 2012
- Choe Yun: The Last of Hanak’o (Bi-lingual, Vol 13 – Women), Asia Publishers 2012
- Oh Jung-hee: Chinatown (Bi-lingual, Vol 11 – Women), Asia Publishers 2012
- Yun Heung-gil: The Man Who Was Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes (Bi-lingual, Vol 8 – Industrialization), Asia Publishers 2012
- Oh Jung-hee: River of Fire and Other Stories, Columbia University Press 2012
- Hwang Sun-won: Lost Souls: Stories, Columbia University Press 2009
- Anthology: The Red Room ed Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2009
- Choe Yun: There a Petal Silently Falls: 3 stories, Columbia University Press 2008
- Anthology: Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction (expanded edition) ed Marshall R Pihl, Bruce + Ju-chan Fulton, M.E. Sharpe 2007
- Cho Se-hui: The Dwarf, University of Hawai'i Press 2006
- Oh Jung-hee: Chinatown (Jimoondang ed), Jimoondang 2006
- Gong Ji-young: Human Decency, Jimoondang 2006
- Anthology: Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology ed Bruce Fulton, Youngmin Kwon, Columbia University Press 2005
- Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope, University of Hawai'i Press 2005
- Yi Ho-cheol: Panmunjom and Other Stories, Eastbridge 2004
- Choe Yun: The Last Of Hanako, Jimoondang 2003
- Chae Man-sik: My Innocent Uncle, Jimoondang 2003
- Hwang Sun-won: A Man, Jimoondang 2003
- Choi In-ho: Deep Blue Night, Jimoondang 2002
- Anthology: A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction ed Kim Chong-un and Bruce Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 1998
- Anthology: Wayfarer: New Fiction by Korean Women ed Bruce + Ju-chan Fulton, Women in Translation 1997
- Anthology: Reunion so far away: a collection of contemporary Korean fiction ed Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Korean National Commission for Unesco 1994
- Anthology: Words of Farewell: Stories by Three Korean Women Writers ed Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton, Seal Press 1989
- Yun Heung-gil: The House of Twilight, Readers International 1989
- Song Kijo: Debasement and Other Stories, Fremont 1983
Struggling with all the Shinga
Well, I just finished this year's essay book (Park Wan-suh’s Who ate all the Shinga?) and it's even harder than last year. Nothing to get your teeth into. And that wasn’t meant to be a pun. Last year’s text at least gave you a challenge in trying to understand it. This year’s adds very little … [Read More]
The 2010 Essay Contest – Who ate up all the Shinga?
Last year, the Korean Literature Translation Institute launched an essay competition to encourage people to read Korean Literature in translation. The title chosen was Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls – a novella which I personally struggled with. In my own feeble submission, I suggested that a colonial period novel would have been a … [Read More]
Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 3
Peter Corbishley offers his entry into the “There a Petal Silently Falls” essay competition. A Korean novella – a human tragedy It is unnerving to have images from a half-recollected film (1) play through a reading of There a Petal Silently Falls. (2) Yet that sense of disorientation evocatively models how the girl’s bewildered spirit-awareness … [Read More]
Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 2
The LKL Editor contributes his own unsuccessful entry into the “There a Petal Silently Falls” essay contest. Ghosts of Kwangju Ch’oe Yun’s There a petal silently falls is an interesting choice for a first Korean literature essay contest. Elusive in content, obscure in characterisation and insubstantial in length, it encourages a discussion not about the … [Read More]
Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 1
Earlier this year the Korean Literature Translation Institute sponsored an essay competition based on Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls. Now that the finalists have been announced, Michael Rank is the first to offer his submission for publication on the pages of LKL. The Kwangju (Gwangju) massacre of 1980 has been called the most … [Read More]
Troubles with the Petal
12 Sep: The only way I’m going to be able write anything on There a Petal is to leave it to the last minute and rely on the deadline pressure for inspiration. Having now read it three times I have no angle on it at all. 10 Oct: Really struggling to write 2,000 words on … [Read More]
Park Wan-suh’s Shinga reviewed in FT
The Weekend FT reviews Park Wan-suh's book "Who Ate Up All the Shinga?" "Lyrical … Gripping". The full review can be found here. # [Read More]
Korean Literature essay contest
Now here’s the kind of initiative I like. The Korean Cultural Centre has teamed up with the Korean Literature Translation Institute to bring you the inaugural Korean Literature Essay Contest. In what I hope will be the first of many contests of this nature, the subject text is the novel on which Jang Sung-woo based … [Read More]
Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope
Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope Originally published 1960. Translation by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, University of Hawaii Press, 2005 Hwang Sun-won’s Trees on a Slope is one of the few Korean novels directly dealing with the Korean War to be available in English. That’s not to say it’s anything like the bludgeoning experience of … [Read More]