2019
Sora Kim-Russell’s translation of Un-su Kim’s The Plotters (Doubleday) is published in the US—January 29
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
So J Lee and Sandy Joosun 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
