Here’s my first attempt at compiling a list of fiction and poetry titles coming up in 2019. Let me know what I’ve missed. Unlike my separate list of non-fiction I have not exercised any editorial control here: this is everything I have been able to find. The list is in four parts: Modern and contemporary […]
Author: Heinz Insu Fenkl
Selected translations by Heinz Insu Fenkl
- Bandi: The Red Years: Forbidden Poems from Inside North Korea tr Heinz Insu Fenkl, Zed Books 2019
- Kim Man-jung: The Nine Cloud Dream tr Heinz Insu Fenkl, Penguin 2019
- Yi Mun-yol: Meeting with my brother tr Chang Yoosup, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Columbia University Press 2017
- Yi Mun-yol: An Anonymous Island tr Heinz Insu Fenkl, New Yorker 2011
New and upcoming literature and fiction titles for 2018
From classic Joseon dynasty ghost stories, via historical fiction set in the reign of Queen Min, to the latest in translated literature, we take a look at some of the books to look forward to in 2018. Our look at non-fiction titles can be found here. Contemporary Korean literature in translation Hwang Sok-yong’s novel At […]
Free short story by Heinz Insu Fenkl
Five Arrows, a short story by writer and translator Heinz Insu Fenkl is available in the August issue of New Yorker magazine. If you’re lazy there’s an audio version on Soundcloud available here. And at the bottom of the New Yorker webpage you’ll find a link to his translation of the Yi Mun-yol story which […]
Heinz Insu Fenkl interview
The New Yorker talks to Heinz Insu Fenkl, translator of Yi Mun-yol’s short story An Anonymous Island nyr.kr/n1i5eR