Tagged: Deborah Smith

In 2018, I launched this blog with my first ever review: I wrote about Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, translated by Deborah Smith, published by the now shuttered imprint Portobello Books. Reading The Vegetarian was the catalyst for the Translating Women project, and part of a personal story I’ve told in a range of talks and […]

I always make new year’s resolutions. Not in a “go to the gym, learn a new skill, tick something off the bucket list” kind of way, but small, attainable goals that I can stick to. This time last year, my resolution was to read more: I always used to have a book on the go, […]

Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books, 2017) The White Book is a short meditation on mourning, as Han Kang explores through words a loss that has accompanied her throughout her life: her mother gave birth prematurely to a girl who lived only two hours, and Han has lived with the knowledge that […]

Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith (Portobello, 2015) This is the novel that kindled a spark that grew into this project. I have a confession to make: despite my love of languages and of translation, I have always gravitated towards reading books written in their original language. This restricts me to anything written in […]