Chinatown

Oh Jung-hee (Author) Oh Jung-hee is often considered the grande dame of South Korean literature. Her work has received both the Yi Sang Literary Award and the Dong-in Literary Award, South Korea's most prestigious prizes for short fiction, and has been translated into multiple languages in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.Bruce Fulton (Translator) Bruce Fulton is Associate Professor and Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation at the University of British Columbia. He has translated many major works of Korean literature over the past forty years.Ju-Chan Fulton (Translator) Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the award-winning translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction, most recently Togani, a novel by Gong Ji-young (2023). Their translations of Korean short fiction appear in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, Granta, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and The New England Review. Bruce Fulton is the editor of The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories (2023).

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