Tamina Hauser is a translator and editor based in South Korea, currently enrolled at LTI Korea’s Translation Academy. In 2020 she won the LTI Korea Award for Aspiring Translators with her German translation of the short story 파묘 (“Grabauflösung” [Gravedig]), by Hwang Jung-eun. As part of the 2022 ALTA Emerging Translators Mentorship, Tamina is working on an English translation of Bak Solmay’s full-length novel Future Walking Rehearsals.
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Jung’s Yong-jun’s short story “Disappearing Things,” from his collection A Walk along Seoulleung, won the Moonji Literary Award in 2019. The story’s protagoni…