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Gene Png

@genepng

werewolf girl, vampire translator

 seoul/singapore
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Joined September 2020
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On #KoreaBookClub, translator @genepng talks "The Legend of Lady Byeoksa" by Esther Park. A historical #romantasy. Perfect for #fiction & #fantasy #readers. ๐ŸŽง Listen on KBS World Radio or #podcast of your choice. #Korea24 #๋ฒฝ์‚ฌ์•„์”จ์ „ #๋ฐ•์—์Šค๋” #์†Œ์„ค #์‚ฌ๊ทน #์ฑ… #์ฑ…์ถ”์ฒœ #ํŒํƒ€์ง€
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Coming from Wildfire - 19th March 2026 THE LEGEND OF LADY BYEOKSA by Esther Park Translated into English by the brilliant @genepng A heart-stoppingly gorgeous Korean romantasy with star-crossed lovers, ancient demons and divine destiny, set in the Joseon dynasty ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ๐Ÿ’•
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This week on #KoreaBookClub, @genepng returns with HOLY BOY by Lee Hee-joo, tr. Lee Joheun. A #thriller about 4 women & a #Kpop idol, exploring #fandom, #loneliness & obsession. ๐ŸŽง Listen on KBS World Radio or #podcast of your choice. #์ดํฌ์ฃผ #์„ฑ์†Œ๋…„ #ํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ณด์ด #์†Œ์„ค #goodreads
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Thrilled to share Korean queer feminist icon Ibanjihaโ€™s writing in English for the first time! Many thanks to The Offing for giving โ€œButch Palace for the Sonโ€ a home. theoffingmag.com/translationโ€ฆ
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Delighted to be bringing this magical and darkly funny Korean modern classic out into the world!! โœจ๐Ÿฅ Gu Byeong-mo writes a coming of age story like no other
Headline Books (@headlinepg) profile pictureHeadline Books@headlinepg11 Feb 2025
'๐‘ซ๐’๐’'๐’• ๐’˜๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’•๐’๐’† ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’„ ๐’Š๐’ ๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’†๐’” ๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’†๐’”?' Introducing the beautifully crafted and truly magical #TheWizardsBakery๐Ÿง With great cake, comes great responsibility... Out 5th June 2025๐ŸŽ‡ geni.us/WizardsBakery
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The incredible destruction of water infrastructure is being matched by brave and tireless people putting the pieces back together. Donate if you can!
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my first book <3
Bloomsbury Books UK (@BloomsburyBooks) profile pictureBloomsbury Books UK@BloomsburyBooks3 Feb 2025
Love is the most despicable excuseโ€ฆ ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿฆ‡ We're thrilled to announce The Midnight Shift by bestselling author Cheon Seon-ran, translated by Gene Png. This is a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness. Coming August 2025
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Hi all, preorder links are up for my debut collection of poetry, Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus! If you are interested in reviewing this book and would like a copy, please let me know. My dm is open. blacksquareeditions.org/bookโ€ฆ
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Translators do so many things besides actually translating โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ› ๏ธโœ‚๏ธ But do they receive enough recognition? My essay about translation-adjacent activities is out now with @wwborders. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/readโ€ฆ
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update from Northern Gaza our friend Saif prepare sweet treats for children in northern gaza and we would also like to inform you that Saif needs about $450 more for his Gaza winter clothes campaign donate to our paypal: paypal.me/alicehenryli or kofi: ko-fi.com/readers4freedom
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๋‚˜ ๊ณ„์† ์˜์•„ํ•œ ๊ฒŒ 2000๋…„๋Œ€ ์ดํ›„ 2030 ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์ •์น˜์˜์‹์ด ํ•œ๋ฒˆ๋„ ๋‚ฎ์•˜๋˜ ์ ์ด ์—†๊ฑฐ๋“  ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์•Œ๊ธฐ๋กœ? ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์‘์›๋ด‰ ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜จ 2030 ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์ด ํŠน์ดํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰๋˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋ญ”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•จ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์œ„๋ฌธํ™”๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ใ…‡ใ…‹์ง€๋งŒ ์‘์›๋ด‰ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•  ์ผ์€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๋Š”
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Anton Hur@AntonHur8 Dec 2024
Han Kang's Nobel lecture has been released. Please note that these are prerecorded, and the lecture happened before the coup attempt on 12/3. Link in next tweet.
Screenshot of Han Kang delivering lecture.

ALT Screenshot of Han Kang delivering lecture.

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My translation and the original of "The End of the World," a short story by the amazing Korean author Yuri Lee, is in the latest issue of Exchanges themed "spirit"๐Ÿ‘ป If you're in the mood for a sad sapphic ghost story, please give it a read๐Ÿ’ž exchanges.uiowa.edu/f24spiriโ€ฆ

The End of the World โ€” Exchanges

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DUA LIPA??????????!!!!!!!!!!
Tabitha Pelly (@tabithapelly) profile pictureTabitha Pelly@tabithapelly20 Nov 2024
Thrilled that Dua Lipa's excellent Service95 has included Indeterminate Inflorescence by Lee Seong-bok, transl. @AntonHur, in their 'Books to Read in November'!โค๏ธ "A small gem of a book... pearls of wisdom to aspiring poets" service95.com/service95-bookโ€ฆ @AllenLaneBooks
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maximising the joint slay ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ๐Ÿ’˜
Anton Hur (@AntonHur) profile pictureAnton Hur@AntonHur16 Nov 2024
I wish to inform @WritersCentre and our funding body @ltikorea that with this announcement, all three of my NCW Translator Mentorship Programme mentees have successfully landed book deal, thus making my Operation Mrs. Bennet a resounding success ๐Ÿ˜Œโœจ
PARK SEOLYEONโ€™s SF novel Project V, translated by GENE PNG, described as โ€œsteminist mecha meets Mulan,โ€ sold to Alยญexa Frank at HarperVia in a pre-empt via Edwina de Charnace of Mulcahy Sweeney on behalf of Jinhee Park of Greenbook Literยญary Agency

ALT PARK SEOLYEONโ€™s SF novel Project V, translated by GENE PNG, described as โ€œsteminist mecha meets Mulan,โ€ sold to Alยญexa Frank at HarperVia in a pre-empt via Edwina de Charnace of Mulcahy Sweeney on behalf of Jinhee Park of Greenbook Literยญary Agency

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"Analysts attribute this sustained success to the international growth of Korean literature, coupled with organized support from both government and private sectors for translation." IT'S THE TRANSLATORS, YA BRAINDEADS!!!!!!! THE TRANSLATORS!!!!!!!! en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2024101โ€ฆ
(News Focus) Korean literature breaks into global mainstream with Nobel Prize after Booker Prize |...

(News Focus) Korean literature breaks into global mainstream with Nobel Prize after Booker Prize |...

SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) -- Han Kang's historic win of the Nobel Prize in literature m...

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Congratulations to Han Kang and all of her translators around the world! ๐ŸŽ‰โค๏ธ๐ŸŽ‰ @videshi_beti @p_niyahmorris Emily Yewon ๐ŸŽ‰โค๏ธ๐ŸŽ‰ #nobelprize #hankang #๋…ธ๋ฒจ์ƒ
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Happy pub day to Yeonnam-dongโ€™s Smiley Laundromat by Kim Jiyun (tr. me) ๐Ÿค๐Ÿฉท May today be a good laundry day, and do pick up this cosy slice-of-life Korean novel while youโ€™re waiting ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿซง @maclehosepress
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Ty to Poetry Daily for featuring my poem "Home = Gutter" today. Homeโ€”a word that guts you. ๐ŸŒค๏ธ๐Ÿ‰โ›ˆ๏ธ ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ•ณ๏ธ๐ŸŒŠ ๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒŠ Repping UDP Second Factory Issue #5 ๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ‘”
Poetry Daily (@Poetry_Daily) profile picturePoetry Daily@Poetry_Daily27 Aug 2024
Today's Featured Poem: "Home = Gutter" by @gregorspamsa, from Second Factory, published by @uglyducklingprs. Read here: poems.com/poem/home-gutter/
Home = Gutter

Home = Gutter

To and for B-Dragon, home is an idiom.

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