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What We Talk About When We Talk About Translation
Deborah Smith, whose rendition of Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian” won the Man Booker International Prize, reflects on the controversies of translation....
Deborah Smith
Deborah Smith is a British translator of Korean fiction. Her translation of Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian won her and the author the Man Booker International Prize in 2016. In 2015 Smith founded Tilted Axis Press, a nonprofit publishing house focusing on contemporary fiction specifically from Asia.