When Han Kang appeared at an event with Shin Kyung-sook on day 2 of the 2014 London Book Fair we were treated to a sneak preview of the cover artwork of the English translation of The Vegetarian. It was hot off the press: the book’s translator Deborah Smith had been sent some samples that very … [Read More]
Translator: Deborah Smith (page 2)
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Selected translations
- Han Kang: Greek Lessons tr Deborah Smith, Emily Yae Won, Penguin 2023
- Kim Hyo-eun: I am the Subway tr Deborah Smith, Scribe 2022
- Kim Hae-ja: HappyLand (K-Poet 15) tr Deborah Smith, Asia Publishers 2020
- Bae Suah: Untold Night and Day tr Deborah Smith, Jonathan Cape 2020
- Bae Suah: Milena, Milena, Ecstatic tr Deborah Smith, Strangers Press 2019
- Han Kang: Europa tr Deborah Smith, Strangers Press 2019
- Haemin Sunim: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection tr Deborah Smith, Penguin 2019
- Han Kang: The White Book tr Deborah Smith, Portobello Books 2017
- Bae Suah: North Station tr Deborah Smith, Open Letter 2017
- Bandi: The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea tr Deborah Smith, Serpent's Tail 2017
- Bae Suah: Recitation tr Deborah Smith, Deep Vellum 2017
- Bae Suah: A Greater Music tr Deborah Smith, Open Letter 2016
- Han Kang: Human Acts tr Deborah Smith, Portobello Books 2016
- Ahn Do-hyun: The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher tr Deborah Smith, Pan Macmillan 2015
- Han Kang: The Vegetarian tr Deborah Smith, Portobello Books 2015
LBF sketch: the snippets which didn’t quite make it…
Sometimes a discussion session is really interesting and you come out of it thinking you’ve get some really good material; and then when you check your notes later there’s just not enough to do a coherent write-up – or the notes don’t make a lot of sense. Or one session might cover the same ground … [Read More]
London Book Fair 2013 – an overview of the Korean publishing market and a brief meeting with Choe Yun and Jung Young-moon
London Book Fair 2014 will see Korea as the Market Focus Country. And in 2013 Korea was there to prepare the way. The Korea Publishers Association and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea jointly occupied a stall at the Earl’s Court exhibition, displaying among other things a wide range of translated Korean literature, including a … [Read More]
Translation flows in Asia: panel session at the London Book Fair 2013
Korea is the Market Focus for the London Book Fair 2014, and with the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature coming up next month it’s good that we have two Korea / Asia-related talks at the London Book Fair – this panel session with participation from Deborah Smith (@londonkoreanist) and the other a presentation from … [Read More]