Most recent update December 23, 2009

A list of English translations published before 2001 is also available

English Translations of Korean Literature Published since 2000

 

 

 

 

 

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Year

Original title(s)

Title of published translation

Original Author(s)

Translator(s)

Publisher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Essays

2009

¹«¼­·Ï(ÙíßíÖà)

Eastern Sentiments

ÀÌÅÂÁØ

Yi T¡¯ae-jun

Janet Poole

Columbia UP

 

Fiction

2009

Table of Contents

Lost Souls: Stories

Ȳ¼ø¿ø

Hwang Sun-won

Bruce Fulton;

Ju-Chan Fulton

Columbia UP

 

Fiction

2009

¿À·¡µÈ Á¤¿ø

The Old Garden

Ȳ¼®¿µ

Hwang Sok-yong

Jay Oh

Seven Stories Press

 

Fiction

2009

¿ø¼ÒÀü¼³(ê³á»îîàã)

From Wŏnso Pond

°­°æ¾Ö

Kang Kyŏng-Ae

Samuel Perry

Feminist Press

 

Fiction

2009

a In the Realm of the Buddha

b Spirit on the Wind

c The Red Room

The Red Room

 

a ¹Ú¿Ï¼­ Pak Wan-so

b ¿ìÁ¤Èñ O Chong-hui

c ÀÓ Ã¶¿ìIm Ch¡¯or-u

Bruce Fulton;

Ju-Chan Fulton

University of Hawai¡¯i Press

 

Fiction

2009

Çô

Tongue

Á¶°æ¶õ

Kyung Ran Jo

Chi-Young Kim

Bloomsbury

 

Fiction

2009

±× ¸¹´ø ½Ì¾Æ´Â ´©°¡ ´Ù ¸Ô¾úÀ»±î

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?:

An Autobiographical Novel

¹Ú¿Ï¼­

Park Wan-suh

Yu Young-nan

Stephen Epstein

Columbia University Press

 

Poetry

2009

 

The Brush and the Sword:

Kasa

 

Sung-Il Lee

Cross-Cultural Communications

 

Poetry

2009

 

Songs for Tomorrow

A Collection of Poems

1960-2002

°íÀº

Ko Un

Brother Anthony

Kim Young-Moo

Gary G. Gach

Green Integer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anthology

2008

Table of Contents

Azalea Vol 2

 

 

Korea Center, Harvard U

University of Hawai¡¯i Press

 

Anthology

2008

 

New Writing from Korea 1

 

 

KLTI

 

Fiction

2008

 

Diary of a Vagabond

¼Û¿µ

Song Young

Jason Park

Codhill Press

 

Fiction

2008

¼ö»ö

Susaek

À̼ø¿ø

Lee Sun-Won

Kang Hyunsook, Lee Jinah, Robert Parker

Homa & Sekey

 

Fiction

2008

Table of Contents

There a Petal Silently Falls:

3 stories

̅˱

Ch¡¯oe Yun

Bruce and

Ju-Chan Fulton

Weatherhead Books

Columbia University Press

 

Poetry

2008

¹¹³Ä : ¼±½Ã

What? (revised edition of   Beyond Self (1997)

°íÀº

Ko Un

Brother Anthony

Young-Moo Kim

Parallax

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anthology

2007

Table of Contents

Azalea Vol 1

 

 

Korea Center, Harvard U

University of Hawai¡¯i Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2007

³ª´Â ³ª¸¦ ÆÄ±«ÇÒ ±Ç¸®°¡ ÀÖ´Ù

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

±è¿µÇÏ

Kim Young-Ha

Chi-Young Kim

Harvest Books

 

 

 

Fiction

2007

Àå³­°¨ µµ½Ã

Toy City

À̵¿ÇÏ

Lee Dong-ha

Chi-Young Kim

Koryo Press

 

Fiction

2007

»õ

The Bird

¿ÀÁ¤Èñ

Oh Jung-Hee

Jenny Wang Medina

Telegram Books

 

Fiction

2007

Table of Contents

Dead Silence and other stories of the Jeju massacre

Çö±æ¾ð

Hyun Kil-Un

Hyunsook Kang

Jin-Ah Lee

John M. McGuire

EastBridge

 

Fiction

2007

Table of Contents

Land of Exile:

Contemporary Korean Fiction, Expanded Edition

anthology

Marshall R. Pihl

Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton

M.E. Sharpe

 

Poetry

2007

Áø´Þ·¡²É

Azaleas: A Book of Poems

±è¼Ò¿ù

Kim So-Wol

David McCann

Weatherhead Books

Columbia University Press

 

Poetry

2007

 

What is Darkening

³ªÈñ´ö

Ra (Na) Heeduk

Choi Jongyoll

Jain

 

Poetry

2007

 

Gas Light

±è±¤±Õ

Kim Gwang-gyoon

Kyongju Hong- Ryou

Codhill

 

Poetry

2007

 

Woman on the Terrace

¹®Á¤Èñ

Moon Chung-hee

Seong-Kon Kim and Alec Gordon

White Pine

 

Drama

2007

Table of Contents

Four Contemporary Plays by Lee Yun-Taek

ÀÌÀ±ÅÃ

Lee Yun-Taek

Dongwook Kim

Richard Nichols

University Press of America

 

Drama

2007

Table of Contents

Allegory of Survival: The Theater of Kang-baek Lee

À̰­¹é

Kang-baek Lee

Alyssa Kim

Hyung-jin Lee

Cambria

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction

2006

³­ÀåÀ̰¡ ½î¾Æ¿Ã¸° ÀÛÀº °ø

The Dwarf

Á¶¼¼Èñ

Cho Se-hui

Bruce and

Ju-Chan Fulton

University of Hawai¡¯i Press

Modern Korean Fiction

 

 

 

Fiction

2006

Table of Contents

The Dog Thief

ÀÓö¿ì

Chul-Woo Lim

Myung-Hee Kim

Tamal Vista

 

 

 

Fiction

2006

¸¶¸¥ ²É

Weathered Blossom

¹Ú¿Ï¼­

Park Wan-suh

Yu Youngnan

Hollym (bilingual, illustrated short story series)

 

 

 

Fiction

2006

ºÀ¼øÀÌ ¾ð´Ï

My Sister Bogsoon

°øÁö¿µ

Gong Ji-yeong

Park Jung-eun

Mosaic

 

Poetry

2006

¼ø°£ÀÇ ²É

Flowers of a Moment

°íÀº

Ko Un

Brother Anthony

Kim Young-Moo

Gary G. Gach

BOA Editions

 

 

 

Poetry

2006

 

Eyes of Dew

¸¶Á¾±â

Chonggi Mah

Brother Anthony

White Pine Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2006

 

Journey to Seoul

±è±¤±Ô

Kim Kwang-Kyu

Brother Anthony

´ä°Ô DapGae (Seoul)

 

 

 

Poetry

2006

Table of Contents

Enough to Say It's Far

¹ÚÀç»ï

Pak Chaesam

David R. McCann

Jiwon Shin

Princeton University Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2006

Table of Contents

 

The Three Way Tavern

°íÀº

Ko Un

Clare You

Richard Silberg

U California Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2006

 

Abiding Places, Korea South & North

°íÀº

Ko Un

Sunny Jung

Hillel Schwartz

Tupelo Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2006

 

Anxiety of Words:

Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women

ÃÖ¼ºÀÚ Ch¡¯oe Sung-ja

±èÇý¼ø Kim Hyesoon

À̳âÁÖ Yi Yon-ju

Don Mee Choi

Zephyr Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2006

 

On an Autumn Night: Classical Korean Poetry in Translation

anthology

Richard Mayer

Jiagu

 

 

 

Poetry

2006

 

The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and Koryo

anthology

Kevin O¡¯Rourke

University Of Iowa

 

 

 

Prose

2006

³¯°³ ¾ø´Â »õ ¦ÀÌ µÇ¾î

My Husband the Poet

¸ñ¼ø¿Á

Mok Sun-ok

Brother Anthony

Seoul Selection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

¼Õ´Ô

The Guest

Ȳ¼®¿µ

Hwang Sok-Yong

Kyung-Ja Chun

Maya West

Seven Stories Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

»ýÀÇ À̸é

The Reverse Side of Life

À̽¿ì

Lee Seung-U

Yoo-Jung Kong

Peter Owen Publishers

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

¹«Á¤

Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature: Mujong

À̱¤¼ö
Yi Kwang-su

Ann Sung-hi Lee

Cornell East Asia Series

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

È­¾ö°æ

Little Pilgrim

°íÀº
Ko Un

Brother Anthony
Kim Young-Moo

Parallax Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

Table of Contents

Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology

 

Bruce Fulton

Young-min Kwon,

eds.

Columbia University Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

Table of Contents

Strength from Sorrow 

¾ç±ÍÀÚ

Yang Gui-ja

Youngju Ryu

Cross-Cultural Communications Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

µÐȲÀÇ »ç¶û

´©¶õÀÇ »ç¶û (The Love of Loulan)

The Love of Dunhuang

À±Èĸí

Yun Humyong

Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, 

Steffen F. Richards

Cross-Cultural Communications Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

»ï ´ë

Three Generations

¿°»ó¼·
Yom Sang-seop

Yu Youngnan

Archipelago books

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

³ª¹«µé ºñÅ»¿¡ ¼­´Ù

Trees on a Slope

Ȳ¼ø¿ø
Hwang Sun-won

Bruce &

Ju-Chan Fulton

University of Hawai¡¯i Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

Table of Contents

Panmunjom and Other Stories

ÀÌȣö
Lee Ho-chul

Theodore Hughes,

Bruce

& Ju-Chan Fulton

EastBridge

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

¿ª»ç´Â È帥´Ù

And So Flows History

Çѹ«¼÷
Hahn Moo-sook

Young-Key

Kim-Renaud

University of Hawai¡¯i Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

¸ð¼ø

Contradictions

¾ç±ÍÀÚ
Yang Kwi-ja

Stephen Epstein

Kim Mi-Young

Cornell East Asia Series

 

 

 

Fiction

2005

Selected works

Cry of the Harp

ÃÖÁ¤Èñ

Choe Chung-hui

Genell Poitras

EastBridge

 

 

 

Graphic fiction

2005

 

Buja's Diary

¿À¼¼¿µ

Seyeong O

Moon-ok Lee

Nicholas Duvernay

ComicsLit NBM publishing

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

¸¸Àκ¸ 1-10

selection

Ten Thousand Lives

°íÀº
Ko Un

Brother Anthony,
Kim Young-Moo,

Gary Gach

Green Integer

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

´ÔÀÇ Ä§¹¬

Everything Yearned For

¸¸ÇØ ÇÑ¿ë¿î
Manhae Han Yong-un

Francisca Cho

Wisdom Publications

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

20 women poets

Echoing Song

anthology

Peter Lee ed.

White Pine Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

²ÉµéÀº º°À» ¿ì·¯¸£¸ç »ê´Ù

Flowers Long for Stars

¿À¼¼¿µ
Oh Sae-Young

Clare You,
Richard Silberg

Tamal Vista Publications

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

A Shijo Poet at the Court of King Sonjo

Á¤ ö

Chong Ch¡¯ol

Kevin O¡¯Rourke

Kegan Paul

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

A Love Song for the Earnest

½Å°æ¸²

Shin Kyungrim

Won-chung Kim

James Han

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

Cracking the Shell:Three Korean Eco-poets

ÃÖ½ÂÈ£, Seungho Choi

±èÁöÇÏ, Chiha Kim

Á¤ÇöÁ¤, Hyonjong Chong

Won-chung Kim

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

Sunrise over the East Sea

¹ÚÈñÁø

Park Hi-Jin

Chang Soo Ko

Julie Pickering

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

River of Life, River of Hope

¹ÚµÎÁø

Park Tu-jin

Edward W. Poitras

EastBridge

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

Eternity Today

±¸»ó
Ku Sang

Brother Anthony

Seoul Selection (Seoul)

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

100 Love Poems from Old Korea

anthology

Kevin O'Rourke

Global Oriental

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

Virtual Reality

±è¿µ¹«
Kim Young-Moo

Brother Anthony
Lee Jong-Sook

´ä°Ô DapGae (Seoul)

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

The Depths of a Clam

±è±¤±Ô
Kim Kwang-kyu

Brother Anthony
Kim Young-Moo

White Pine Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2005

 

Even Birds Leave the World

ȲÁö¿ì
Hwang Ji-Woo

Won-Chung Kim,
Christopher Merrill

White Pine Press

 

 

 

Drama

2005

¼Ò, Å丷, ´ç³ª±Í

Three Plays by Chi-Jin Yoo

The Cow, The Mud Hut, The Donkey,

À¯Ä¡Áø
Yoo Chi-jin

Won-Jae Jang

Colin Smythe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction

2004

´ç½ÅµéÀÇ Ãµ±¹

Your Paradise

ÀÌûÁØ
Yi Ch'ongjun

Jennifer Lee,

Timothy R. Tangherlini

Green Integer

 

 

 

Fiction

2004

³²³è»ç¶÷ ºÏ³á»ç¶÷

Southerners, Northerners

ÀÌȣö
Lee Ho-Chul

Andrew Killick,

Sukyeon Cho

EastBridge

 

 

 

Fiction

2004

¹° À§¿¡ ¶°ÀÖ´Â µµ½Ã

A Floating City on the Water

¼ÕÀå¼ø
Jang-Soon Sohn

Jin-Young Choi

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Fiction

2004

±è¾à±¹ÀÇ µþµé

The Curse of Kim's Daughters

¹Ú°æ¸®
Park Kyong-ni

Choon-won Kang etc

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Fiction

2004

µÎ°ãÀÇ ³ë·¡

Twofold song

À̹®¿­

Yi Mun-yol

Kwŏn Kyŏng-mi

Hollym (bilingual, illustrated short story series)

 

 

 

Poetry

2004

 

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry

anthology

David McCann ed.

Columbia University Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2004

°Å¹Ì°¡ ÇѸ»

What the Spider Said

°íâ¼ö
Ko Chang-soo

Chang Soo Ko

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Poetry

2004

¸ð°ú ¿ËµÎ¸®¿¡µµ »ç¿¬ÀÌ ÀÖ´Ù

Even the Kots on Quince Trees Tell Tales

±¸»ó
Ku Sang

Brother Anthony

´ä°Ô DapGae (Seoul)

 

 

 

Poetry

2004

 

Flowers in the Toilet Bowl

ÃÖ½ÂÈ£
Choi Seung-ho

Won-Chung Kim,

James Han

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Poetry

2004

 

Drawing Lines

¹®´ö¼ö
Moon Dok-su

Chang Soo Ko

Julie Pickering

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Poetry

2004

 

I want to Hijack an Airplane

±è½ÂÈñ
Kim Seung-hee

Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, Steffen F. Richards

Homa & Sekey (2004)

´ä°Ô DapGae (Seoul 2006)

 

Poetry

2004

 

Windflower

¹®Á¤Èñ
Mun Jeong-hui

Wolhee Choi,

Robert E. Hawks,

Wonsook Kim

Hawks Publishing

 

Drama

2004

The Ox

The Shack

Memorial Day

Korean Drama Under Japanese Occupation

À¯Ä¡Áø
丸½Ä

Ch'i-jin Yu 

Man-sik Ch'ae

Jinhee Kim

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fiction

2003

³ëÀ»

Evening Glow

±è¿øÀÏ
Kim Won-il

Agnita Tennant

Jain Publishing

 

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Fiction

2003

Table of Contents

The Preview and Other Stories

Á¶¼±ÀÛ
Cho Sun-jak

Kim Young Chan,

David C. Carter

Jain Publishing

 

 

 

Poetry

2003

¡ºñ·Ï

The Book of Corrections

À¯¼º·æ
Yu Songnyon

Choi Byonghyon

Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley

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Poetry

2003

Çϴðú ¹Ù¶÷°ú º°°ú ½Ã

 

Sky, Wind, and Stars

À±µ¿ÁÖ
Yun Dong-ju

Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, 

Steffen F. Richards

Jain Publishing

 

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Songs

2003

 

Mu-ga: The Ritual Songs of Korean Mudangs

ÀÓ¼®Àç
Im Sok-jae

Alan C. Heyman

Jain Publishing

 

 

Poetry

2003

 

Vision of a Phoenix

Çã³­¼³Çå
Hô Nansôrhôn

Yang Hi Choe-Wall

Cornell East Asia Series

 

Poetry

2003

 

Traveler Maps

°íÀº
Ko Un

David McCann

Tamal Vista Publications

 

 

 

Poetry

2003

Korean poems written in Classical Chinese

Among the Flowering Reeds

anthology

Kim Jong-gil

White Pine Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fiction

2002

°¡¸é°í

Reflections on a Mask

ÃÖÀÎÈÆ
Ch'oe In-hun

Steven More

Shi CP Moore

Homa & Sekey

 

Fiction

2002

¿µ¿øÇÑ Á¦±¹

Everlasting Empire

ÀÌÀÎÈ­

Yi In-hwa

Yu Young-nan

EastBridge

 

Fiction

2002

³ó¹Î

Farmers

À̹«¿µ

Lee Mu-young

Yu Young-nan

Homa & Sekey

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Fiction

2002

¾Æ¹öÁö¿Í ¾Æµé

Father and Son

Çѽ¿ø
Han Sung-won

Yu Youngnan

Julie Pickering

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Fiction

2002

¿ø¹Ìµ¿ »ç¶÷µé

A Distant and Beautiful Place

¾ç±ÍÀÚ
Yang Kwi-ja

Kim So-young
Julie Pickering

University of Hawai'i Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2002

Table of Contents

Shrapnel and Other Stories

À̵¿ÇÏ
Lee Dong-ha

Hyun-jae Yee Sallee

White Pine Press

 

 

 

Fiction

2002

À屺ÀÇ ¼ö¿°
ȯ°¢ÀÇ ´Ù¸®

The General's Beard,
Phantom Legs

À̾î·É
Yi Oyoung

Brother Anthony

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

 

Fiction

2002

Table of Contents

The Voice of the Governor General and Other Stories of Modern Korea

ÃÖÀÎÈÆ¿Ü
Choi In-Hoon etc

Chun Kyung Ja

EastBridge

 

Fiction

2002

Table of Contents

Unspoken Voices: Selected Short Stories by Korean Women Writers

ÃÖÁ¤Èñ¿Ü
Choi Jong-hui etc

Jin-Young Choi

Homa & Sekey

 

 

 

Poetry

2002

 

The Book of Korean Shijo

ÃÖÃæ/À̱Ժ¸¿Ü

Kevin O'Rourke

Harvard University Asia Center

 

 

 

Poetry

2002

 

The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry

anthology

Peter Lee etc.

Columbia University Press

 

 

 

Poetry

2002

 

Meditative Poems by Korean Monks

anthology

Jaihiun Kim

Jain Publishing

 

 

 

Poetry

2002

 

Brother Enemy

Á¶ÁöÈÆ ¿Ü

Cho Ji-hun etc

Suh Ji-Moon

White Pine Press

 

Poetry

2002

 

Three Poets of Modern Korea

ÀÌ»ó, ÇÔµ¿¼±, ÃÖ¿µ¹Ì

Yi Sang, Ham Dong-seon, Choi Young-mi

Yu Jung-yul,

James Kimbrell

Sarabande Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiction

2001

¿ì¸®µéÀÇ Àϱ׷¯Áø ¿µ¿õ

Our Twisted Hero

À̹®¿­

Lee Mun-yol

Kevin O¡¯Rourke

Hyperion East

 

Poetry

2001

 

Variations: 3 Korean Poets

±è¼ö¿µ, ½Å°æ´Ô, À̽ÿµ

Kim Su-Young, Shin Kyong-Nim, Lee Si-Young

Brother Anthony

Kim Young-Moo

Cornell East Asia Series

 

Poetry

2001

 

Strong Winds at Mishi Pass

Ȳµ¿±Ô

Hwang Dong-kyu

Kim Song-gon

Dennis Maloney

White Pine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In addition, the Korea Literature Translation Institute sponsored for a time the publication inside Korea of a series of books containing short works of fiction, some previously published elsewhere : The Portable Library of Korean Literature Short Fiction

 

Hollym Publishing also offer some Korean short stories in an illustrated, bilingual series

 

Online publications

 

Words Without Borders offered an Anthology of Korean works in its November 2005 issue. (Contents)

 

 

 

Additional resources

 

A discussion of the difficultiies encountered in publishing translations of Korean literature, that I prepared for a conference at Ewha University in 2006

 

A list of translated short stories published in a nunber of anthologies dating from earlier decades.

 

An index of translations published in Korean Literature Today 1996 – 2000.

 

There is a very full database of published translations in the KLTI homepage. (Go into the Virtual Library, Literary Works, English, and do an Advanced Search)

 

The Korea Journal archive enables you to compile lists of literary works published there, and usually to view the text too.

 

A brief, well-written survey of 20th-century Korean literature:

Twentieth-Century Korean Literature, by Yi Nam-ho, U Ch'angje, Yi Kwangho, Kim Mi Hyun. Translated by Ryu Youngju. EastBridge. 2005