In celebration of the UK publication of ‘Counterattacks at Thirty’ by Sohn Won-Pyung, the KCC is bringing you an online event featuring translator Sean Lin Halbert and Anton Hur, an award-winning translator of Cursed Bunny, Love in the Big City, and author of Toward Eternity. We’ll be diving into: – The art of translation … [Read More]
Translator: Sean Lin Halbert
Selected translations
- JM Lee: Artificial Truth tr Sean Lin Halbert, Amazon Crossing 2025
- Jeong You-jeong: Perfect Happiness tr Sean Lin Halbert, Creature 2025
- Jang Ryu-jin: To the Moon tr Sean Lin Halbert, Bloomsbury 2025
- Sohn Won-pyung: Counterattacks at Thirty tr Sean Lin Halbert, HarperVia 2025
- Kim Ewhan: The Black Orb tr Sean Lin Halbert, Serpent's Tail 2024
- Kim Un-su: The Cabinet tr Sean Lin Halbert, Angry Robot 2021
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]
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]