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Singapore’s got talent: Translator Shanna Tan takes South Korean bestsellers to the world
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Singaporean translator Shanna Tan, who brought South Korean bestseller Welcome To The Hyunam-dong Bookshop (2023) into English, is not your typical Korean to English literary translator.
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SINGAPORE – Shanna Tan, 34, acknowledges she is not the typical profile of a literary translator from Korean to English in the Anglophone publishing world, but adds: “I feel proud to be doing this as a Singaporean. You don’t have to be restricted by the idea of what makes a typical literary translator.”
Barely three years after she pivoted from commercial translation gigs into literary translation, Hwang Bo-reum’s Welcome To The Hyunam-dong Bookshop (2023)
