To discover and encourage promising new translators of Korean literature, the Korean Literature Translation Institute is inviting submissions for the 8th Korean Literature Translation Contest for New Translators. Target languages are English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. The contest is open to Koreans and foreigners who have not received institutional grants for translation, [...]

The Centre for the Study of Korea at the University of Toronto has announced the award of the second James Scarth Gale translation prize to Prof. John Frankl of Underwood College, Yonsei University, for his translation of Yi Sang’s “Lingering Impressions of a Mountain Village.” The translation is available on the CSK’s Web site: www.utoronto.ca/csk/prize.html.
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The Centre for Korean Studies at the University of Toronto is hosting a translation prize for non-fiction pieces of writing on Korea. The winner of the top prize will receive an award of Cdn$1000. The objective of this award is to promote, and make public, materials useful for the teaching of courses on modern Korea.