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Translator from Korean, Chinese and Japanese. @WritersCentre @LitTranslate Mentee. Translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum (Oct ‘23)
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Just a translator holding her third book! 🥹
YEONNAM-DONG’S SMILEY LAUNDROMAT by Kim Jiyun (tr. me) is now in stores! 🧺🫧
@maclehosepress
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My bf just broke up with me and I find myself wanting to seek solace in a warm, comforting read. And I just realised today is also the US pub day for my debut translation. Can’t make this up. 🫠🥲 Happy pub day to me and Bo-reum, and I wish everyone happiness.
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I’m a walking ad. The multifaceted skills of a literary translator. ☺️
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Just a v happy translator holding the proofs of her first book ✨❤️
Coming soon in Oct 2023
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Someone just asked me why I’m learning Thai and is there a “use” for it. Yes, I’m going to get happiness and contentment from doing it so that’s a whole lot of use!
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Just a translator holding her first book on pub day! ❤️✨📖
Booklovers, the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is now OPEN
@BloomsburyBooks
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Just a translator holding her second book! 🇸🇬📖 Dive into Singaporean neighbourhood stories of 1970-80s - a bottle of cod liver oil, a coffin in a living room, monitor lizards in a storm drain and more - in DAKOTA* by Wong Koi Tet.
*Dakota Crescent in Singapore 🙂
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Look! I’m in the newspaper! 😆
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Translating be like writing one line and staring into space for the next 10 mins. And going back two paras before to edit a phrase. And googling for something related and getting sucked into it for another 5 mins. And then coming to tweet about it. 🫠
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It’s just me (the translator) right now, but I hope one day I’ll be meeting the author, Hwang Bo-reum. Here’s to more love for books and bookshops
@BloomsburyBooks
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When I first started out as a Korean-English translator, I was asked—way too often—why not translate from Chinese instead? Just because I’m a Singaporean Chinese. Well, now I translate from Korean, Chinese and Japanese, and sometimes into Chinese. 😆
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13 years into learning Korean and I still get stressed out by simple numbers in conversation. 😓
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My translation of Hwang Bo-reum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is flying off the shelves 😍😍 It’s currently oos at Singapore’s Kinokuniya bookshop. Look at the gorgeous display (now empty) and love how they also stock the books mentioned inside the novel!
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I’m always in the middle of reading 5 books, buying 2 more, borrowing 8 more and wanting to buy another 20 more.
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HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP DISPLAY AT KINOKUNIYA SINGAPORE. 🥹🥹🥹 So proud to be the novel’s translator!!! ❤️✨📖
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Fangirling is the best motivation to study languages (for me) ❤️
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I won something at the Korean essay writing competition (for non-Koreans) organised by the ROK Emb and I think it’s the best prize for a literary translator ✨✨.
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Thank you so much 🧡It truly means a lot. For everyone else who’s going through a rough patch right now, I hope this book can be of some comfort too.
My bf just broke up with me and I find myself wanting to seek solace in a warm, comforting read. And I just realised today is also the US pub day for my debut translation. Can’t make this up. 🫠🥲 Happy pub day to me and Bo-reum, and I wish everyone happiness.
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What does your ideal bookshop look like? This delightful novel about bookshops and life will surely fuel your love for books. It got me thinking about how books find its readers and I hope it’ll find a spot on your shelves. Publishes tmr
@BloomsburyBooks
💜
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It’s really quite the experience to be translating a warm and healing Korean novel while navigating a brutal breakup. And the solace I get from re-reading my translations of another k-healing novel that’s coming out next month. I hope my translations will heal more souls ❤️✨
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Language learning is my anchor. It gives me the energy and motivation to do other language-related things like translating, teaching, writing and reading. Need to fill up the energy tank ⚡️
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Being fluent in multiple languages also mean that I can shop online in several languages and that’s … BAD. I just ordered several things (guess what) from a Japanese site.
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This wouldn’t have happened without the most amazing
@AntonHur
who mentored me in 2021 under the
@WritersCentre
mentorship programme ✨✨ My heart is full.
Just a translator holding her first book on pub day! ❤️✨📖
Booklovers, the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is now OPEN
@BloomsburyBooks
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Translating a Korean novel now and I came across this line that I really needed to hear, and it’s giving me so much comfort. 🥲🥺 I can’t wait to share more about the book (my 3rd!), but for now, I’ll work harder to polish the lines ✨❤️
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I can’t wait to hear what people think of the book!! ✨
Just a v happy translator holding the proofs of her first book ✨❤️
Coming soon in Oct 2023
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I’m so glad to be part of the process of a book reaching a wider audience ❤️ Can’t wait to hear what people will think of Hwang Bo-reum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, opening on 26 Oct ✨
@BloomsburyBooks
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The (foreign) language chooses you, not the other way round. It takes affinity and fate for it to click, and sometimes it’s just about the right time and going with the flow. Thai is such a language for me. ❤️
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Just placed an order for 5 books written / translated by my fav literary translators. ☺️
@JeremyTiang
, Julia Sanches,
@pollyfmbarton
and
@danielhahn02
. Can’t wait!!
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People: I can’t decide what to wear!
Me: Should I bring along an English novel? Chinese? Korean? Japanese? Should I take a Thai textbook with me? 🤔
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Today I read about 80 pages of Japanese, so here’s another photo of my handwritten notes:)
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Don’t let people tell you that the language you wanna learn is more difficult or less practical than others or to discourage you in any other way. Follow your heart ❤️
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I need a non-eye straining hobby. I think I’ve used my eyes enough translating, reading, learning languages and watching dramas 😂.
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When my Korean was at the beginner/intermediate level, I received so many 한국어 잘하시네요 compliments, but I stopped getting them after reaching advanced level 😂
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SCREAMING. Cover reveal of Hwang Bo-reum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop at
@LondonBookFair
?! ✨ Can’t be there in person but my name is!!!
@BloomsburyBooks
📸:
@AntonHur
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My friend gifted me a trilingual edition a couple of years back, but I can only read two 🙃. There’s too much on my mind, going to relax a little before going to bed early
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[blog] How to revise vocabulary
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Gave my first school talk on language learning and literary translation at a junior college (G11 and 12)! 🥹🥹🥹🥹
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Cover reveal!!! ❤️🩹🫧
Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry. We wash the stains from your heart ❤️🩹🫧
We are delighted to reveal the cover for Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun, translated by Shanna Tan.
A stunning Korean translated fiction novel that will heal your heart 🫧❤️🩹
Coming October 2024
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DAKOTA by Wong Koi Tet was one of my first literary translation projects. It brought me an
@LitTranslate
mentorship with Julia Sanches, bore witness to my growth, brought me community, and taught me so much. The book is now launching on 13/4 🥹. Sign up:
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It’s been an amazing 6 months! The opportunity to work with the amazing
@AntonHur
, and to translate a sample from Korean bestseller THE INCONVENIENCE STORE (불편한 편의점) by Kim Ho-yeon (김호연). My heart is full. 💜
WATCH NOW: Celebrate the launch of our Emerging Literary Translators anthology! Grab a cuppa and a snack, and meet the 11 graduates of our 2022 programme as we enjoy a taster of their work...
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Taking it easy today so I drew a little something. Referenced someone else’s work; not an original art :)
临摹自 @ 邱啊璐
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My spoken Korean is terrible. 🥲 It’s so much better when I write the same thing out. Don’t talk to me, text me.
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Relishing the experience of reading my translations at the gorgeous Kensington gardens. Don’t know when I can do this again. 🥹 Coming soon in Oct 2023!
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Wow
@JYHeffect
#YongHwa
reading Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop ✨✨ Coming soon in English in Oct 2023 ❤️
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Happily soaking in the healing power of the Hyunam-dong bookshop as I translate. And adding more books to my TBR pile. Truly a book lover’s dream .✨
@BloomsburyBooks
@emduddingstone
✨Shoutout to my amazing
@WritersCentre
mentor
@AntonHur
!
So happy to be publishing Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop next year, a book I would very happily step into about the healing power of (you guessed it) books and bookshops 🥹
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Today I got to know a new friend at a BOOKSHOP (the bookseller introduced us) and omg it feels like a scene right out of this book 🥹🥹🥹🥹
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So honoured, grateful and excited to be mentored by the super⭐️
@AntonHur
!! 😭😭 Hope to contribute to the efforts to get more people excited about Korean literature!
Congratulations to our 2022 National Centre for Writing mentees and especially to Shanna Tan
@heyimshanna
, which the Twitter algorithm knows to thumbnail below 😌 I look forward to your exciting work!
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LIKE A FEVER | From K-pop Fan to Translator: In Conversation with Shanna Tan |
@AsiaArtArchive
💕💕 (any VIPs here?)
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Visited the very lovely
@BloomsburyBooks
office and met the amazing folks working on Hwang Bo-reum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop. And hehe got bookmarks + one more proof copy which I’m taking with me all around London 🤣. Missing
@emduddingstone
v much!
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Corrections are great in language exchange, but stop asking people to teach you a language. If you want a teacher, pay for it. 😓
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Omg proofs are out for my fav BOOKSHOP!! So gorgeous! ✨✨ Coming in Oct via
@BloomsburyBooks
Hyunam-dong love! Yeongju leaves Seoul to open a bookshop and attempts to rebuild her life. But this is also about how bookshops build communities, jobs not defining your worth, the fine line between success & happiness, and how books can help. A great translation
@heyimshanna
💙
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Found
@p_niyahmorris
’s translation at a boutique Korean bookshop in Singapore and yes, they have fine taste 💜
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Why is the native speaker automatically assumed to be the better language tutor? 🙃 I tutor Korean and as someone who had walked the path, I think from the learner’s perspective when I teach.
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My translation of Hwang Bo-reum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is the Book of the Month for
@womanandhome
’s Nov Book Club!! ❤️❤️ Coming to readers on 26 Oct. Thank you
@zoeannewest
!
A little snapshot of
@womanandhome
November book club with fantastic reads from Hwand Bo-Reum, whose book is translated by
@heyimshanna
Jessica Knoll
@SophieCous
@sophiehannahCB1
@gracedent
@JosieSilver_
@nikkimarmery
and How I write from the utterly brilliant
@KinsellaSophie
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Everyone around me is learning a language. Is language learning getting ALOT more popular or I somehow have managed to surround myself with language learners? 😂
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In a week’s time!
☕ 'A love letter to books, bookshops and all who love them' Reader Review
Just one more week until publication... WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan
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Now reading 👀. It’s the first time I’m reading Arabic fiction in translation. (tr.
@sawadhussain
)
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Incredibly happy to be part of the program, working from Chinese this time. 😍 My heart is full. Huge congrats to the 12 fellow mentees! 🥳🥳
ALTA is thrilled to announce the mentees for the 7th year of the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program! Congratulations to our 13 exceptional emerging translators, our largest mentee cohort to date! Learn more about them here:
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My translation of Hwang Bo-reum’s WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP headlines
@Waterstones
’s fiction selection this month ✨✨ Coming soon on 26 Oct via
@BloomsburyBooks
With brilliant new titles from
@LeeChildReacher
,
@cassieclare
,
@dgjones
,
@neilhimself
,
@KinsellaSophie
,
@JordanPeele
,
@Schwarzenegger
,
@SabrinaGhayour
,
@astro_timpeake
,
@theagwrites
and many more, we're truly spoilt for choice this October:
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한글날입니다. ❤️ I wasn’t a language person. I didn’t have anything that I was intensely passionate about. I didn’t have any friends overseas. Learning Korean changed all that.
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Literally lying on the floor and choosing a book from my Japanese bookshelf. This is life 🧡💛
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Can’t wait to read this! And look at the gorgeous cover ❤️ Congrats,
@sandyjoosunlee
!
@Wildfirebks
@NotThatAreen
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Wrote my first book review in Chinese! I’ll probably submit it somewhere, but omg milestone!! :)
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I'm excited to be reading from my translation of Singaporean author Wong Koi Tet (黄凯德)’s DAKOTA at the
#ALTA45
July Bilingual Reading hosted by
@LitTranslate
! Tuesday, July 26 at 5pm PT (8pm ET). Sign up here
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OMG IM IN THE UK! But travelling for more than 24hours is not recommended. Norwich, see you soon ☺️
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Like Yeongju in the novel, I love visiting indie bookshops. I’m heading to UK next week — please recommend bookshops, museums and food in Norwich, London and surrounding areas! ❤️✨
Just a v happy translator holding the proofs of her first book ✨❤️
Coming soon in Oct 2023
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Happy 한글날! 13 years and counting with the Korean language. 🥳Like all long-term relationships, the journey is not without its heartaches and slumps, but I just want to say I love the language so very much, and all the wonderful people, things and opportunities it brought me ❤️
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