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‘I plan to continue to be a bidirectional translator. I’m already a bilingual author. No one told me I couldn’t do it, so I just went ahead and did it.’
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‘I plan to continue to be a bidirectional translator. I’m already a bilingual author. No one told me I couldn’t do it, so I just went ahead and did it.’
Excerpted with permission from ‘I Went to See My Father’, by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur.
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As Korean literature in translation continues to reach more international readers, Korean authors are achieving a growing presence in the global publishing market. So far, a total of eight novels have been nominated for prestigious literary awards this year.
As Korean literature in translation continues to reach more international readers, Korean authors are achieving a growing presence in the global publishing market. So far, a total of eight novels have been nominated for prestigious literary awards this year.