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“Maybe, but the apprenticeship via translation certainly helped the process.”
“Now that I’d written my own novel, I returned to translation with a new level of belief in my stylistic decisions.”
““I want what I’m writing to be mine,” she replied.”
“There is the obvious fact that, as a translator, our names are never going to come first on the book cover.”
“I had no idea what translating had to do with selflessness.”
“Having access to a specific language’s literary quirks is like opening a second toolbox for your own writing.”
“It was painful, but eventually I found the right arrangement of English words to match Yun’s Korean.”
“Craft Advice fiction writing G.P.”
“She holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and has studied comparative literature at Harvard and Princeton.”
“If translating a novel felt like hanging drywall in a newly framed house, writing a novel felt like framing the whole house myself.”
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“When translating The Disaster Tourist , I too struggled most with the opening scene, rearranging, deleting, and replacing my rendition of Yun’s sentences multiple times.”
“And beyond the specificities of Yun as a writer, there are so many more general Korean literary details I’ve come to know and appreciate as a translator that have made me think What’s stopping me from doing this in English?”
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