Alice Bennell, UK winner of last year’s Korean Literature Translation Institute essay contest on “There a Petal Silently Falls”, contributes her entry for this year’s competition. Who Ate Up All the Shinga is an autobiographical novel chronicling the early life of the author, Park Wan-Suh. The Japanese occupation of Korea, and events leading up to … [Read More]
Translator: Bruce Fulton (page 2)
Selected translations
- Anthology: Island Ablaze and Other Stories ed Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee and Sang-Kyung Lee, Cornell East Asia Series 2025
- Oh Jung-hee: Chinatown tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Penguin 2025
- Gong Ji-young: Togani tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2023
- Anthology: The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories ed Bruce Fulton, Penguin 2023
- Kim Soom: One Left tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Washington Press 2020
- Cheon Un-yeong: The Catcher in the Loft tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Codhill Press 2019
- Kim Sagwa: Mina tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Two Lines Press 2018
- Chae Man-sik: Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Columbia University Press 2017
- Jo Jung-rae: The Human Jungle tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Chin Music Press 2016
- Anthology: The Future of Silence – Fiction by Korean Women ed Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton, Zephyr Press 2016
- Hwang Sun-won: The Moving Fortress tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Merwin Asia 2015
- Yi Hyo-seok: Leaves of Grass (Bi-lingual, Vol 103 – Before and After Liberation) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Asia Publishers 2015
- Chae Man-sik: Juvesenility (Bi-lingual, Vol 101 – Before and After Liberation) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Asia Publishers 2015
- Chu Yo-seop: Mama and the Boarder (Bi-lingual, Vol 99 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces) tr Bruce Fulton, Kim Chong-un, Asia Publishers 2015
- Yi Tae-jun: An Idiot’s Delight (Bi-lingual, Vol 98 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces) tr Bruce Fulton, Kim Chong-un, Asia Publishers 2015
- Ha Ilji: The Republic of Užupis tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Dalkey Archive 2014
- Choi In-ho: Another Man’s City tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Dalkey Archive 2014
- Lee Hye-kyung: And Then the Festival (Bi-lingual, Vol 54 – Family) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Asia Publishers 2014
- Jeong Yi-hyun: In the Trunk (Bi-lingual, Vol 25 – Love and Love Affairs) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Asia Publishers 2013
- Jo Jung-rae: How in Heaven’s Name tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Merwin Asia 2012
- Gong Ji-young: Human Decency (Bi-lingual, Vol 14 – Women) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Asia Publishers 2012
- Choe Yun: The Last of Hanak’o (Bi-lingual, Vol 13 – Women) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Asia Publishers 2012
- Oh Jung-hee: Chinatown (Bi-lingual, Vol 11 – Women) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Asia Publishers 2012
- Yun Heung-gil: The Man Who Was Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes (Bi-lingual, Vol 8 – Industrialization) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Asia Publishers 2012
- Oh Jung-hee: River of Fire and Other Stories tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Columbia University Press 2012
- Hwang Sun-won: Lost Souls: Stories tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Columbia University Press 2009
- Anthology: The Red Room ed Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2009
- Choe Yun: There a Petal Silently Falls: 3 stories tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Columbia University Press 2008
- Anthology: Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction (expanded edition) ed Marshall R Pihl, Bruce + Ju-chan Fulton, M.E. Sharpe 2007
- Cho Se-hui: The Dwarf tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2006
- Oh Jung-hee: Chinatown (Jimoondang ed) tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Jimoondang 2006
- Gong Ji-young: Human Decency tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Jimoondang 2006
- Anthology: Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology ed Bruce Fulton, Youngmin Kwon, Columbia University Press 2005
- Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2005
- Yi Ho-cheol: Panmunjom and Other Stories tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Theodore Hughes, Eastbridge 2004
- Choe Yun: The Last Of Hanako tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Jimoondang 2003
- Chae Man-sik: My Innocent Uncle tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Kim Chong-un, Robert Armstrong, Jimoondang 2003
- Hwang Sun-won: A Man tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Jimoondang 2003
- Choi In-ho: Deep Blue Night tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Jimoondang 2002
- Anthology: A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction ed Kim Chong-un and Bruce Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 1998
- Anthology: Wayfarer: New Fiction by Korean Women ed Bruce + Ju-chan Fulton, Women in Translation 1997
- Anthology: Reunion so far away: a collection of contemporary Korean fiction ed Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Korean National Commission for Unesco 1994
- Anthology: Words of Farewell: Stories by Three Korean Women Writers ed Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton, Seal Press 1989
- Yun Heung-gil: The House of Twilight tr Bruce Fulton, Choe Hae-chun, Ju-chan Fulton, Martin Holman, Suh Ji-moon, Readers International 1989
- Song Kijo: Debasement and Other Stories tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Fremont 1983
Publications by Bruce Fulton as author
- What Is Korean Literature?, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 2020
Struggling with all the Shinga
Well, I just finished this year's essay book (Park Wan-suh’s Who ate all the Shinga?) and it's even harder than last year. Nothing to get your teeth into. And that wasn’t meant to be a pun. Last year’s text at least gave you a challenge in trying to understand it. This year’s adds very little … [Read More]
The 2010 Essay Contest – Who ate up all the Shinga?
Last year, the Korean Literature Translation Institute launched an essay competition to encourage people to read Korean Literature in translation. The title chosen was Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls – a novella which I personally struggled with. In my own feeble submission, I suggested that a colonial period novel would have been a … [Read More]
Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 3
Peter Corbishley offers his entry into the “There a Petal Silently Falls” essay competition. A Korean novella – a human tragedy It is unnerving to have images from a half-recollected film1 play through a reading of There a Petal Silently Falls.2 Yet that sense of disorientation evocatively models how the girl’s bewildered spirit-awareness3 interweaves, recalls … [Read More]
Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 2
The LKL Editor contributes his own unsuccessful entry into the “There a Petal Silently Falls” essay contest. Ghosts of Kwangju Ch’oe Yun’s There a petal silently falls is an interesting choice for a first Korean literature essay contest. Elusive in content, obscure in characterisation and insubstantial in length, it encourages a discussion not about the … [Read More]
Petal essay contest Salon des Refusés 1
Earlier this year the Korean Literature Translation Institute sponsored an essay competition based on Ch’oe Yun’s There a Petal Silently Falls. Now that the finalists have been announced, Michael Rank is the first to offer his submission for publication on the pages of LKL. The Kwangju (Gwangju) massacre of 1980 has been called the most … [Read More]
Troubles with the Petal
12 Sep: The only way I’m going to be able write anything on There a Petal is to leave it to the last minute and rely on the deadline pressure for inspiration. Having now read it three times I have no angle on it at all. 10 Oct: Really struggling to write 2,000 words on … [Read More]
Park Wan-suh’s Shinga reviewed in FT
The Weekend FT reviews Park Wan-suh's book "Who Ate Up All the Shinga?" "Lyrical … Gripping". The full review can be found here. # [Read More]
Korean Literature essay contest
Now here’s the kind of initiative I like. The Korean Cultural Centre has teamed up with the Korean Literature Translation Institute to bring you the inaugural Korean Literature Essay Contest. In what I hope will be the first of many contests of this nature, the subject text is the novel on which Jang Sung-woo based … [Read More]
Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope
Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope Originally published 1960. Translation by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, University of Hawaii Press, 2005 Hwang Sun-won’s Trees on a Slope is one of the few Korean novels directly dealing with the Korean War to be available in English. That’s not to say it’s anything like the bludgeoning experience of … [Read More]