Available Quote by Deborah Smith

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

— Chang-Rae Lee

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

— Park Chan-wook

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like…

— Boris Pasternak

Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and…

— Deborah Smith

Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in…

— Kim Hyesoon

Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based, Janet Poole…

— Deborah Smith

I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I…

— Sandra Cisneros

Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and…

— Kim Hyesoon

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

— Simone Muench

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

— Min Jin Lee

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to…

— Chang-Rae Lee