[Korean Literature Club] ‘The Extremely High-Spec Machine That Only Works in This Room’ by Bak Solmay (Trans. Slin Jung)
March 3, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm KST
Dear Friends,
We will discuss Bak Solmay’s story ‘The Extremely High-Spec Machine That Only Works in This Room’ (Translated by Slin Jung) in March.
WHEN_Thursday, March 3. @7:30PM KST
WHERE_via Zoom
READ_ ‘The Extremely High-Spec Machine That Only Works in This Room’ by Bak Solmay (Translated by Slin Jung)
LEADERS_Jenny Byun & Brother Anthony of Taize
Please click the link below to read the book.
Online Korean Literature Now
About the Author
Bak Solmay embarked on her literary career in 2009 with her debut novel Eul, which won Jaeum & Moeum’s inaugural New Writer’s Award. She has since authored the novels I Want to Write a Hundred Lines, Time in the City, Slowly Head First, and the short story collections Then What Shall We Sing?, Winter’s Gaze, Beloved Dog, and International Night. Her latest novel is Future Walking Rehearsals. She has received the Moonji Literary Award, Kim Seungok Literary Award, and Kim Hyeon Prize. (-Korean Literature Now)
About the Translator
Slin Jung is a freelance translator and interpreter. She received an MA in Conference Interpreting at the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She won the LTI Korea Award for Aspiring Translators in 2014, a Commendation Prize for the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award in 2015, a GKL Korean Literature Translation Award in 2018, and has received LTI Korea grants to translate two works by Chang Kangmyoung: Waning Crescent, or The Way You Remember the World and Astatine.
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