Emily Yae Won

Emily Yae Won is a literary and art translator working in Korean and in English. Recent translations include Samuel Beckett’s Murphy, Jennifer Croft’s Homesick, Han Junghyun’s Kyoko and Kyoji, Hwang Jungeun’s DD’s Umbrella (forthcoming from Tilted Axis Press, 2023), Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living, Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends, Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown, and stories by Han Kang, Pak Kyongni, and Yi SangWoo.