2019
Victoria Caudle’s translation excerpt from Lee Jong San’s Customer is published by Words Without Borders—June 3
So J Lee’s translation of Lee Hyemi’s “The Cupboard with Strawberry Jam” is published by Words Without Borders—June 3
Anton Hur’s translation excerpt from Kim Hye-jin’s About My Daughter is published by Words Without Borders—June 3
Sora Kim-Russell and Deborah Smith’s translations are published in the YEOYU series by Strangers Press—May 30
Anton Hur’s translation of Jung Young Su’s “Nights in Lebanon” is published in Columbia Journal—May 18
So J Lee’s translation of selections from Lee Hyemi’s Unexpected Vanilla is published by Asymptote Journal—May 1
Sora Kim-Russell is longlisted for the Man Booker International with Hwang Sok-yong for At Dusk—March 13
Sora Kim-Russell’s translation of Kim Jung-hyuk’s “Where Boats Go” is published in Readymade Bodhisatva by Kaya Press—March 1
Sophie Bowman’s translation of Soyeon Jeong’s “Home” is published in Guernica—February 28
So J Lee wins LTI translation grant—February 28
Sandy Joosun Lee’s translation of Won-pyung Sohn’s Almond is announced for publication by HarperVia—February 23
Deborah Smith’s translation of Han Kang’s The White Book (Crown) is published in the US—February 19
Smoking Tigers is featured in an ALTA interview—February 7
Anton Hur’s translation of Sang Young Park’s “The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta” begins serialization in Words Without Borders—February 1
Sora Kim-Russell’s translation of Un-su Kim’s The Plotters (Doubleday) is published in the US—January 29
Victoria Caudle’s translation of Kim Seong Joong’s “Mars Child” is published in Nabillera—January 25
2018
Sung Ryu, Slin Jung, Anton Hur, and Sora Kim-Russell win GKL Korean Literature Translation Awards—November 30th
Sung Ryu wins LTI translation grant—November 30th
Anton Hur’s translation of Kang Kyeong-ae’s The Underground Village: Short Stories (Honford Star) is published in the UK—November 30th
Agnel Joseph, Sophie Bowman, and Sora Kim-Russell publish in a special issue of Wasafiri—November 20th
Sora Kim-Russell’s translation of Hye-young Pyun’s City of Ash and Red (Arcade) is published in the US—November 6th
Sora Kim-Russell’s translation of Hwang Sok-yong’s At Dusk (Scribe) is published in Australia—October 1st
Sophie Bowman, Helen Cho, Anton Hur, Agnel Joseph, Slin Jung, Sora Kim-Russell, and Sung Ryu publish in the 10th-anniversary issue of Korean Literature Now—September 1st
Sora Kim-Russell’s translation of Hye-young Pyun’s The Hole (Arcade) wins the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel—July 15th
Anton Hur’s translation of Kyung-Sook Shin’s The Court Dancer (Pegasus) is published in the US—August 7th
Sora Kim-Russell’s translation of Un-su Kim’s The Plotters (Text Publishing) is published in Australia—July 30th
Slin Jung, Agnel Joseph, Jack Jung, and Anton Hur publish in Litro issue 169 (“Finding the Soul in Seoul”)
Sora Kim-Russell delivers “Queerly Vague or Vaguely Queer” lecture at Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference on the relationship between the Korean language and Korean queer literature—June 5th
So J Lee debuts with Choi Jin-young’s “Dori and Jina” in Words Without Borders—June 1st
Sophie Bowman wins LTI translation grant—May 31st
Victoria Caudle debuts with Kim Bi’s “Transgender Basketball Club” in Nabillera—May 30th
Smoking Tigers hard launch—May 12th
Sung Ryu, Stella Kim, Agnel Joseph, and Sora Kim-Russell publish translations in the Asymptote Special Feature in Korean Literature—April 20th
Deborah Smith is shortlisted for the Man Booker International with Han Kang for The White Book—April 12
Deborah Smith is longlisted for the Man Booker International with Han Kang for The White Book—March 12
Sandy Joosun Lee and So J Lee win LTI translation grants—February 28th
Smoking Tigers begin members-only translation workshops in Seoul—February 24th
2017
Agnel Joseph wins the inaugural GKL Literary Translation Grand Prize—November 20th
Smoking Tigers internal launch—November 20th
Korean literary translators collective conceived at the British Literary Translation Centre Summer School in Norwich, UK—July 25th
