Waxen Wings: The ACTA Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea Edited by Bruce Fulton Koryo Press, 2011, 238pp There are plenty of anthologies of Korean translated fiction available, and many of them are edited and / or translated by Bruce Fulton, usually with Ju-Chan Fulton involved in the project too. I recently enjoyed the … [Read More]
Author: Kevin O'Rourke
Selected publications by Kevin O'Rourke
- My Korea: Forty Years without a Horsehair Hat, Renaissance 2013
Selected translations by Kevin O'Rourke
- Anthology: The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories ed Bruce Fulton, Penguin 2023
- Chang Yong-hak: The Poetry of John (Bi-lingual, Vol 108 – Korea After the Korean War), Asia Publishers 2015
- Pak Tae-won: A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist (Bi-lingual, Vol 93 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”), Asia Publishers 2015
- Yi Sang: Wings (Bi-lingual, Vol 91 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”), Asia Publishers 2015
- Hyeon Jin-geon: A Lucky Day (Bi-lingual, Vol 87 – The Naked in the Colony), Asia Publishers 2014
- Kim Dong-in: Potatoes (Bi-lingual, Vol 86 – The Naked in the Colony), Asia Publishers 2014
- Kim Jung-hyuk: The Glass Shield (Bi-lingual, Vol 59 – Humour), Asia Publishers 2014
- Anthology: The Book Of Korean Poetry: Choson Dynasty ed Kevin O'Rourke, Stallion Press 2014
- Ha Keun-chan: The Suffering of Two Generations (Bi-lingual, Vol 27 – South and North), Asia Publishers 2013
- Anthology: Waxen Wings: The ACTA Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea ed Bruce Fulton, Koryo Press 2011
- Anthology: The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and Koryo ed Kevin O'Rourke, University of Iowa Press 2006
- Chong Ch'ol: A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Sonjo, Kegan Paul Intl 2005
- Anthology: A Hundred Love Poems from Old Korea ed Kevin O'Rourke, Global Oriental 2003
- Anthology: The Book of Korean Shijo ed Kevin O'Rourke, Harvard University Press 2002
- Suh Ki-won: The Ma Rok Biographies, Jimoondang 2001
- Yi Mun-yol: Our Twisted Hero, Hachette Books 2001
- Anthology: Looking for the Cow: Modern Korean Poetry ed Kevin O'Rourke, Dedalus Press 1999
- Midang So Chong-ju: Poems of a Wanderer, Dedalus Press 1995
- Yi Kyu-bo: Singing Like a Cricket, Hooting Like an Owl, Cornell East Asia Series 1995
- Anthology: Tilting the jar, spilling the moon: poems from Koryo, Choson and contemporary Korea ed Kevin O'Rourke, Dedalus Press 1993
- Anthology: Home-Coming and Other Korean Short Stories ed Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Pace 1983
- Anthology: Ten Korean Short Stories ed Kevin O'Rourke, Yonsei University Press 1981
- Anthology: A Washed-out Dream, Larchwood 1980
- Cho Byung-wha: Where Clouds Pass By: Selected Poems of Cho Byung-Hwa, Chung-ang University 1974
Book review: Yi Mun-yol — Our Twisted Hero
Yi Mun-yol: Our Twisted Hero Originally published 1987 Translated by Kevin O’Rourke Available on Kindle (Minumsa, 2012) or hard copy (Hyperion Books, 2001) Moving to the provinces from a school in Seoul in which the social hierarchy was one he had lived with all his life, our twelve-year-old hero Han Pyongt’ae is faced with a … [Read More]