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...
by Harriett Press | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translation Diary, Translators
The Translation Process By Lizzie Buehler When I began translating Korean literature six years ago, I felt very uncertain about the process of translation. I knew that I started with a Korean text, and my goal was to produce an elegant-sounding English equivalent...
by Harriett Press | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
March 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting On the last Saturday of March, our book club met at Wisma Atria’s Toast Box to discuss the late Singaporean writer Yeng Pway Ngon’s Chinese-language novel Unrest, translated by Jeremy Tiang. Three of us...
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