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Janet Hong

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Janet Hong

Canada South Korea

Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her translation of Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale was a finalist for both the 2018 PEN Translation Prize and the 2018 National Translation Award. She has also translated Ha Seong-nan’s Flowers of Mold and Ancco’s Bad Friends.

Articles by Janet Hong

February 2019 International Graphic Novel Grass Keum Suk Gendry Kim Feature

From “Grass”

By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

I had no idea I wouldn't be coming back.

Translated by Janet Hong

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From the Translator: Han Yujoo’s “Lament”: Writing Through the Blank Page

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If you’re Han Yujoo and life gives you writer’s block, you write about it and create something beautiful in the process.Let me begin by clarifying:…

Lament

He was fifty-four years old with a sound mind and a body that was rotting away. He died. He wasn’t young enough to have required a specific cause of death, or young enough to cause great sadness.…

Translated from Korean by Janet Hong

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