Notable Korean Fiction in Translation

Tobias Carroll
5 min readMar 9, 2020

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A perspective on literary fiction that only takes work being done in one language into account is, by its very nature, going to be incomplete. The process of translation into English–that which does and does not get translated, from specific writers to specific languages– remains a frequently discussed subject in literary circles. Recently, fiction translated from Korean into English has received a fair share of attention…

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Tobias Carroll

Writer of things. Managing editor, Vol.1 Brooklyn. Author of the collection TRANSITORY and the novel REEL.