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Deborah Smith FRSL (born 15 December 1987) is a British translator of Korean fiction. She translated The Vegetarian by Korean author Han Kang, for which she and the author were co-winners of the Man Booker International Prize in 2016.
The Vegetarian thus became the first recipient of the award after its reconfiguration in 2015, prior to which it was awarded to an author's body of work rather than a single novel. [3] [4] It is considered as Korean translated literature's biggest win since Kyung-Sook Shin's Please Look After Mom won the closing Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 ...
In 2019, Saeum publishing company published Jeong-seo Lee(pseudonym)'s translation of The Great Gatsby, which included a 75-page section of translation notes that openly criticized the translations of Wook-Dong Kim and Young-ha Kim. [32] The translation notes point out the two translators' translation errors in 67 different parts of the novel.
Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born 27 November 1970 [1]) is a South Korean writer.From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. [2] Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016.
Emil Weilshäuser [note 1] (31 July 1827 – unknown) was a German publisher, writer, translator, and lebensreformer ("life reformer") who advocated for vegetarianism.He was a leading figure in the early German vegetarianism movement and published and translated a number of English-language works on vegetarianism into German.
We Do Not Part has undergone several different titles prior to its English translation. Many English, Korean, and French publications have referred to the book as I Do Not Bid Farewell . [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] After winning the Prix Médicis for Foreign Literature in 2023, Han stated that the English translation would be published under the same ...
Even though the translator started like this, it enabled her to translate a work which would eventually win an award. There's some relation; also why I have restricted the info to one line. There's an inconsistency between "Convalescence" and Convalescence ; if it's a short story, it should be the former, if it's a novel/novella, it should be ...
Founded in 1883, the Daisy Society was Britain's first children’s vegetarian group. In 1893, Beatrice Lindsay, editor of the The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger launched The Daisy Basket, the first vegetarian magazine for children. [2] Under the pseudonym "Uncle John", Knight edited the magazine from 1893 to 1894. [8]