This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia.… — Deborah Smith Asia Copy Share Image
The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been. — Deborah Smith Hardest Copy Share Image
Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both… — Deborah Smith Bae Copy Share Image
“Children lose their innocence piece by piece. The layers are carved away until our hearts have been exposed and polished into an… — Deborah Smith Children Copy Share Image
I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are… — Deborah Smith Age Copy Share Image
We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others. — Deborah Smith Bodies of water Copy Share Image
All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a… — Deborah Smith Available Copy Share Image
“At the center, on the lawn of the courthouse, sat a log manger with a life-size nativity scene cut out of plywood.… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her… — Deborah Smith Beautiful Copy Share Image
Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka. — Deborah Smith Firsts Copy Share Image
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali… — Deborah Smith Bengali Copy Share Image
“I stood there, my head bowed, my shoulders hunched. This is how it feels to be dragged from the cement shoes of… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry,… — Deborah Smith Class Copy Share Image
Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow. — Deborah Smith Grief Copy Share Image
And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone… — Deborah Smith Access Copy Share Image
I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at… — Deborah Smith Courses Copy Share Image
“Because it was said that a man had to appreciate beauty in order to know what he is fighting to protect.” — Deborah Smith Appreciate beauty Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Book Copy Share Image
