Quotes by Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith

A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

Children

Husband

Smart

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

Photograph

Souvenirs

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 is British though lives in Toronto, Brother Anthony was born here though is now a naturalised Korean citizen. There’s also Chi-young Kim and Sora Kim-Russell, who are younger and do fiction for commercial houses.

Brother

House

Toronto

All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet – barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work.

Country

Korean

Students

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 politically, influenced by her own translation practice (she’s translated the likes of Kafka, Pessoa, and Sadeq Hedayat into Korean). Her language is simply extraordinary.

Bae

Likes

Practice

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry – I’m hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don’t have the funds, we won’t have an intern.

Backgrounds

Low Income

Lows

But there’s also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator’s relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It’s beautiful.

Beautiful

Strong

Teacher

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

Bed

Flattery

Lying

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

Getting Older

Looks

People

Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation – she’s Han Kang’s favourite, and the novel we’re publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller’s Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities – her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans – and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.

Awards

Focus

Stars

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Artist

Awards

Axes

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Bae

Beautiful

Bed

Believe

Body

Book

Brother

Children

Class

Country

Daughter

Delight

Depth

Design

Differences

Directors

Dream

Elderly

Excited

Firsts

Flattery

Focus

Getting Older

Good Friend

House

Husband

I Can

Insperational

Inspirational

Joy

Korea

Korean

Likes

Lists

Literature

Littles

London

Long

Looks

Low Income

Lows

Lying

Males

Mean

Memories

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Quotes by Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith

A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet – barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work.

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry – I’m hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don’t have the funds, we won’t have an intern.

But there’s also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator’s relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It’s beautiful.

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

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