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Literary Translation Manuscript Consult


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Are you an aspiring literary translator? Working on a project and want to get feedback from a professional? Submit up to ten pages of your work as well as a draft of a “pitch” to a publisher, and Deborah will give you detailed line editing on your ten-page sample, suggestions for improving the pitch, and advice on which publishers to pitch to.

Deborah Smith is a Korean to English literary translator who has translated over fifteen books from Korean, including the Booker Prize-winning The Vegetarian by Han Kang. She is the founder of Tilted Axis Press, an independent publisher of contemporary literature by the Global Majority, translated into or written in a variety of Englishes.

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