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Publications by Heinz Insu Fenkl as author

Collections that include work by Heinz Insu Fenkl

Translations by Heinz Insu Fenkl available online

  • Yi Mun-yol: An Anonymous Island tr Heinz Insu Fenkl, New Yorker 2011
  • Jo Kyung-ran: Looking for the Elephant tr Heinz Insu Fenkl, Fifty Two Stories 2009

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 … [Read More]

A Yi Mun-yol short story in the New Yorker

A Yi Mun-yol short story (An Anonymous Island) is published in The New Yorker — a first! wp.me/p1mFzB-cJ. Via @subjobjverb. Translation is by Heinz Insu Fenkl. Update: LKL article on the short story and Im Kwon-taek’s screen adaptation of it (Village in the Mist – 안개 마을, 1983) can be found here. [Read More]