An array of award-winning Korean literary gems, from a novel recounting the horrors of Jeju Island’s 1948 massacres to a gripping dystopian feminist eco-thriller, have been curated for an exhibition at the Starfield Library in southern Seoul s COEX.
The Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) announced the winners of its annual translation awards on Monday, recognizing their excellence in translation and contributions to promoting Korean literature worldwide. The 20th LTI Korean Translation Award went to E.J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello who translated “The World s Lightest Motorcycle” by Lee Won into English, Yu Hsin Hsin, who translated “An Anthology of Korean Literature 2” by Yi Tae-jun and seven other modern Korean novelists into Chinese and Ingliana Tan who translated “Seven Years of Darkness” by Jeong You-jeong into Indonesian.