by Harriett Press | Sep 8, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
August 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting I’m so grateful we could meet physically on the one-year anniversary of our book club and over a picnic at the beautiful green space at SMU at that. It was our first picnic and I think we pretty liked the idea...
by Harriett Press | Aug 6, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
July 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting New restrictions kicked in last month because of the rise in COVID-19 cases, so we had to move our book club meeting online again. It was our second online meeting, and I guess we’re slowly getting the hang of...
by Harriett Press | Jul 21, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translation Diary, Translators
Translation is Impossible By Stella Kim Translation is impossible. That’s what I hear in the back of my head every time I sit down in front of my computer. Today I ponder what to do with Korean words, which, when translated into English, contain names of other...
by Harriett Press | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
June 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting We almost called off this month’s book club meeting because of the two-person dine-in restriction, but one of the ladies had a brilliant idea of meeting at one of the benches at SMU…so there we were at a...
by Harriett Press | Jun 3, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
May 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting Harriett Press Book Club started after the Circuit Breaker lockdown in August last year, so we have been happily meeting physically for the past eight months. And for the first time in our book club’s very young...
by Harriett Press | Apr 26, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
April 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting April has been such a hectic month that before the last Saturday of the month approached, three of us were already wondering if we would be able to finish reading Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan’s 470-page...
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