Janet Hong
Translator
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Korean
Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TA First Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale, which was also a finalist for the 2018 PEN Translation Prize and the 2018 National Translation Award. Other recent translations include Ha Seong-nan’s Bluebeard’s First Wife and Kwon Yeo-sun’s Lemon. (Photo credit: courtesy of the author)