Korea Times Translation Awards recognize voices bridging Korean literature with world

The Korea Times celebrated five literary translators who won its 56th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards during a ceremony at Kyobo Building in central Seoul, Tuesday. This year’s contest, the first since author Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in literature win, saw a surge in entries compared to previous editions. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and KB Financial Group, the awards presented two grand prizes, two commendation awards and the Kevin O'Rourke Prize. The award ceremony was followed by a book talk featuring best-selling author Jang Ryu-jin and Sean Lin Halbert. The two who discussed the recently published English translation of Jang’s novel "To the Moon" by Halbert, who himself had won the Grand Prize from The Korea Times' Literature Translation Awards in 2018. “When this award was first established in the 1970s, Korea was still a small country in Asia, distant from global attention. However, we have now become an advanced economy that commands global interest, and cultural phenomena beginning with the letter K — K-pop and K-drama — have caWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times