Strangers Press, which brought us Yeoyu. a series of eight translated short story chapbooks in 2019, this week released a follow-up. The new series is entitled Iyagi and features works by both established and emerging authors – including what seems to be a posthumously published work by Park Wansuh. According to the publisher, “Each of these … [Read More]
Author: Sang Young Park (박상영 1988-)
There’s a nice interview with Park Sang-young by Anton Hur in Words Without Borders.
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Selected publications by Sang Young Park
- Knockoff Viagra & Jeje (중국산 모조 비아그라와 제제 어디에도 고이지 못하는 소변에 대한 짧은 농담, 2018) tr Anton Hur, Strangers Press 2023
- Love in the Big City (대도시의 사랑법, 2019) tr Anton Hur, Tilted Axis 2021
Sang Young Park, Anton Hur and Simon Lam on Love in the Big City
KCCUK is pleased to announce an in-person talk about the novel Love in the Big City with the author San Young Park and the translator Anton Hur. A fresh and unique debut novel by the bestselling young star of Korean queer fiction, Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that … [Read More]
Love in the Big City – Sang Young Park and Anton Hur in conversation
Libreria is thrilled to welcome a star of Korean fiction, Sang Young Park, and brilliant translator, Anton Hur, as they discuss Love in the Big City – a fresh and unique debut novel, longlisted for the 2022 Internatioal Booker Prize. Love in the Big City is about queers and Catholicism, women, abortion, STDs, and the … [Read More]
A look back at our 2021 reading diary
Looking back at this year, it’s been one of the best for new translations of Korean literature that I can remember. There have been at least ten new fiction titles, and unusually for me I managed to get through all the titles I was intending to. All of them are recommendable in their different ways. … [Read More]
Love in the Big City: Sang Young Park in conversation with Anton Hur
November’s literature discussion again features a book which is very hot off the press: Love in the Big City Wednesday 24th November 12:00noon-1:30pm via Zoom The author Sang Young Park and the moderator Anton Hur will join us for a live virtual talk about the novel Love in the Big City. Following the talk, Sang … [Read More]
Literature and poetry in translation titles for 2021: more than a dozen to look forward to!
This is now LKL’s fifth annual post that looks at the literature and fiction titles we’re looking forward to over the coming twelve months. Since last year we’ve made things easier for ourselves by investing some time building a book database that aims to catalogue all physical publications of Korean literature in translation, as well … [Read More]