- Source: Sora Kim-Russell
Sora Kim-Russell (Korean: 김소라; born 1976) is a Korean American writer and translator from California, currently residing in Seoul. She received an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and has translated a number of prominent Korean writers, including Hwang Sok-yong, Pyun Hye-young, and Jeon Sungtae. Her translations have appeared in outlets such as The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine. Among other accolades, her translation of Hwang Sok-young's At Dusk (해질무렵) was longlisted for the 2019 International Booker Prize.
Biography
Kim-Russell is a biracial Korean-American. She began formally studying Korean in university and worked for a Korean studies journal in Seoul, editing translation. While working as an editor, she entered The Korea Times' literature translation contest in 2005 and won for poetry, and won the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) contest for new translators in 2007. As a translator, she has taught literary translation courses at Ewha Womans University's Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, LTI Korea, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and served as a mentor for the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program. She is a member of the translation collective Smoking Tigers, whose name is derived from the stock phrase of Korean folktales 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에 (Long, long ago, back when tigers used to smoke tobacco), for Korean-to-English translators, which includes authors and translators such as Sung Ryu, Stella Kim, Soje, and Deborah Smith.
Kim-Russell has often commented on challenges in Korean translation, namely of certain untranslatable words and concepts in Korea, such as han, dapdaphada (a physical sensation of suffocation caused by feeling frustrated or unable to speak or act freely), and eogulhada (to feel that something is unfair or undeserved), and a perception of 'vagueness' in Korean writing because of the relatively sparse nature of Korean compared to English as a topic-prominent language with minimal pronouns. Her essays on topics including mixed-race Koreans, LGBTQ representation in Korean film, and North Korea have been published by a variety of publications.
Translations
Bae, Suah (2015), Nowhere to Be Found, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, ISBN 9781477827550
Bae, Yong-joon (2010), A Journey in Search of Korea's Beauty, Seoul: Hollym, ISBN 9781565913073
Gong, Ji-young (2014), Our Happy Time, New York: Marble Arch Press, ISBN 9781476730455
Hwang, Sok-yong (2015), Princess Bari, Periscope, ISBN 9781859641743
Hwang, Sok-yong (2017), At Dusk, Melbourne: Scribe, ISBN 9781947534667
Hwang, Sok-yong (2017), Familiar Things, Victoria, Australia: Scribe, ISBN 9781947534049
Hwang, Sok-yong (2021), The Prisoner, New York: Verso, ISBN 9781839760839
Hwang, Sok-yong (2023), Mater 2-10, translated by Kim-Russell, Sora; Bae, Youngjae Josephine, Melbourne: Scribe, ISBN 9781922586940
Jeon, Sungtae (2017), Wolves, Buffalo, New York: White Pine Press, ISBN 9781945680014
Jeon, Sungtae (2019), Old Wrester, Norwich: Strangers Press, ISBN 9781911343592
Kim, Bo-young (2021), On the Origin of Species and Other Stories, Los Angeles: Kaya Press, ISBN 9781885030719
Kim, Un-su (2019), The Plotters, New York: Anchor Books, ISBN 9780525564805
Pyun, Hye-young (2018), The Hole, New York: Arcade Publishing, ISBN 9781628729917
Pyun, Hye-young (2020), City of Ash and Red, New York: Arcade Publishing, ISBN 9781950691098
Pyun, Hye-young (2020), The Law of Lines, New York: Arcade Publishing, ISBN 9781948924962
Shin, Kyung-sook (2013), I'll Be Right There, New York: Other Press, ISBN 9781590516737
Awards and nominations
2016: Nominated for PEN Translation Prize for Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah
2016: Nominated for Best Translated Book Award for Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah
2017: Winner of 2017 Shirley Jackson Award for The Hole by Pyun Hye-Young
2018: Winner of 2018 GKL Korean Literature Translation Awards for The Plotteres by Kim Un-su
2019: Longlisted for 2019 International Booker Prize for At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong
2019: Winner of 2019 LTI Korea Translation Award for The Plotters by Kim Un-su
2020: Longlisted for 2020 PEN Translation Prize for At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong
2021: Longlisted for 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature for On the Origin of Species and Other Species by Kim Bo-young, translated with Joungmin Lee Comfort
2024: Shortlisted for 2024 International Booker Prize with Youngjae Josephine Bae for Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Im Si-wan
- OpenAI
- Daftar karakter Honkai: Star Rail
- Star (album Super Junior)
- 2020-an
- Daftar penemu planet minor
- Rikiya Koyama
- Just Dance (lagu)
- Sentōin, Haken Shimasu!
- Sora Kim-Russell
- Pyun Hye-young
- Gong Jiyeong
- International Booker Prize
- Kim Bo-young
- Bae Suah
- The Korea Times
- Shin Kyung-sook
- Kim Un-su
- Park Min-gyu
Up (2009)
Adventure, Animation, Bioskop Online, BioskopKeren, Cinemaindo, Comedy, Dewanonton, Drakor ID, DrakorIndo, DramaQu, Dunia21, DutaFilm, Family, Ganool, gudangmovie, IndoXX1, Indoxxi, KorDramas, LayarKaca21, Layarkaca21 INDOXXI, LK21, LK21 XXI, Nonton drama, Nonton Movie, Pahe.in, PusatFilm21, USA
Bob Peterson, Lorien McKenna
The Irishman (2019)
Bioskop Online, bioskop21, BioskopKeren, Crime, Dewanonton, Drakor ID, DrakorIndo, Drama, DramaQu, Dunia21, DutaFilm, Ganool, gudangmovie, gudangmovie21, History, IndoXX1, Indoxxi, KorDramas, LayarKaca21, Layarkaca21 INDOXXI, LK21, LK21 XXI, Pahe.in, PusatFilm21, USA
Francisco Ortiz, Martin Scorsese
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