Across languages and cultures – A Reading with Literary Translator Shanna Tan

Shanna Tan (Singapore)

21 Mar 2024, Thu, 7pm & 8pm

30mins

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Concourse

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Synopsis

Join Shanna Tan, a Singaporean literary translator working from Korean, Chinese and Japanese, for an evening of bilingual readings and a chat on her journey as a multilingual literary translator. She’ll also be sharing fun insights to the process of translating the bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum (Bloomsbury, 2023).

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No tickets will be issued. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Language: English, Korean

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Artist Information

Shanna Tan

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Shanna Tan is a Singaporean literary translator working from Korean, Chinese and Japanese. She translated the bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum (Bloomsbury, 2023). Other book-length translations are forthcoming with imprints under Penguin Random House UK, Hachette UK and more.

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21 Mar 2024, Thu

7pm

Esplanade Concourse

8pm

Esplanade Concourse

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