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Booklist: Korean literature in translation (page 56)
Modern Far Eastern Stories
Publisher description: This anthology of carefully-selected modern stories offers the reader a glimpse into Far Eastern literature that has hitherto been largely unexplored. These stories by contemporary writers, which have been translated by specialists who mostly are or were faculty members of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, reveal the social … [Read More]
Black Crane: An Anthology of Korean Literature
Difficult to obtain other than in a couple of libraries in Denmark and Germany. [Read More]
Korean Short Stories
Contains the following stories: Bare Hills (Kim Dong-in) Adada, the Idiot (Kye Yong-Muk) At the Time When the Buckwheat Blooms (Yi Hyo-Seok) The Third Human Type (An Su-gil) The Echo (O Yong-Su) Silent Parallel (Choi Bum-So) Illusion (Park Kyung-ni) Picture of a Sorceress (Kim Dong-ni) [Read More]
Cry of the People and Other Poems
Also available from LTI Korea. No further information available. [Read More]
Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-century Korean Stories
Not to be confused with Hawon Jung’s 2023 title Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’ s Rights Worldwide – for which see this entry Contains the following stories: Hyeon Jin-geon: The Fire Kim Dong-in: Potatoes / Sweet Potato Yi Hyo-seok: When the Buckwheat Blooms … [Read More]
Where Clouds Pass By: Selected Poems of Cho Byung-Hwa
No further information available. The title appears to be for sale at LTI Korea, and you might find second hand copies available somewhere. [Read More]
Poems from Korea: A historical anthology
Compiled and translated by Peter H. Lee. Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson Billed as the UNESCO collection of representative works, this volume contains works by many authors, from King Mu of Paekche onwards. According to Stanford University’s Searchworks, this collection was first published in 1964 under the title: Anthology of Korean poetry from the earliest … [Read More]
Virtuous Women – Three Classic Korean Novels
The Three works translated in this volume are recognised as the most significant products of traditional Korean fiction. A Nine Cloud Dream is an allegorical romance about Buddhist and Confucian thought, written by Kim Man-jung, a scholar-statesman of the seventeenth century. It contains passages of both high and low comedy, as well as perceptive character-studies … [Read More]
Plays from Korea
No further information available. WorldCat lists it, but without giving any details of its contents. LTI Korea suggests it might contain one or more plays by Yu Chi-jin. The volume appears to be for sale (presumably as an eBook) from this source. Amazon US is currently listing a second-hand copy. [Read More]
The Running Water Hermitage
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In the Depths
The reading public of Korea was amazed when a reclusive housewife Moo-Sook Hahn “whisked away” the first prize in a contest for novel writing sponsored by a literary magazine in the early 1940’s with A Woman with a Lantern. Ever since, novelist Hahn received one literary prize or award after another including the Freedom Literature Award … [Read More]
Anthology of Korean Poetry from the Earliest Era to the Present
From the back cover: This is the first comprehensive anthology of Korean poetry ever published in the English language. In it Peter H. Lee, a Korean scholar, has selected and translated the verse of his country, ranging from the beginning of the Silla Dynasty, in 57 B.C., to the middle of the twentieth century. LKL … [Read More]
Collected Short Stories from Korea
According to Charles Montgomery, this is the second compilation of Korean translated fiction. The collection includes the following stories An Su-gil: Annals of a Ranch Choe Cheong-hui: Chomnye Choi Tae-ung: Blood Phlegm Chu Yo-seop: Mama and the Boarder Chun Young-Taik: The Cow Chun Pi-Sook: Home-coming Hahn Moo-Sook: Halo around the Moon Kim Song-Han: Coming Home … [Read More]
Voices of the Dawn
A Selection of Korean Poetry from the Sixth Century to the Present Day Also available from LTI Korea. No further information available [Read More]
Selected Poems of Kim So Wol
Available from LTI Korea. No further information available [Read More]