>Deborah Smith, who has said her first attempt at Korean

Because it's an award specifically for TRANSLATED fiction you fucking gook.

>they're both ugly
I don't give a shit about any of this.

>>9168311
Did the lady who translated Finnegans Wake into Chinese get an award? I think she deserves a place in the literary halls of honor for accomplishing it

>>9168353
>nobody cares about your book
>decide to translate it
>nobody cares about your translation
>finish it anyway
>have three breakdowns
so this is the power...of chinese autism...woah

She doesn't even know what the fuck she's doing! Hell, *I* could just translate some random novel into English using a dictionary and win 50,000 if I didn't believe there was a principle involved. Anyone with half a brain could.

>>9168515
Try reading again, this time using your whole brain.

I can't imagine Koreans producing anything of value anyway, the only thing they're good for is RTS

>>9168353
This sounds infinitely more interesting than the OP

whypipo, s.m.h.

>>9168353
How the fuck would that even work without going full literal

I remember anon's comment in a previous thread about languages and translation- the trick is to learn relatively obscure languages which still have an active publishing industry. I guess anon was right.

>>9168338
>4chan