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[Asia Economy Reporter Byunghee Park]

◆The Old Man and the Sea = Translator Lee Jung-seo newly translated Ernest Hemingway's representative work 'The Old Man and the Sea' and included it alongside the original 'The Old Man and the Sea.' 'The Old Man and the Sea' is considered a masterpiece of 20th-century literature in the English-speaking world. Hemingway published 'The Old Man and the Sea' in 1952 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Translator Lee Jung-seo said, "Translation must be a literal translation that preserves the narrative structure written by the author," and made efforts to restore the original meaning of Hemingway's sentences. According to Lee Jung-seo, Hemingway's sentences are never simple sentences. He explains that previous translators arbitrarily split and added sentences, making them appear so. He also explains that the first sentence of the novel is originally a compound sentence, not a simple sentence. (Written by Ernest Hemingway / Translated by Lee Jung-seo / Saeum)

◆I Like That Smile Too = This is the 39th Kim Soo-young Literary Award-winning work and the first poetry collection by poet Lee Giri. Lee Giri was born in Seoul in 1994 and graduated from the Department of Creative Writing at Chugye University for the Arts. Lee Giri is the first poet to receive the Kim Soo-young Literary Award without having officially debuted. The poems in the early part of the collection tell the story of a young narrator who cannot bring themselves to smile despite the titles. The child in the poems is a victim of school violence. The poet calmly reflects on past wounds, concretizes the faint emotions recalled at the time, and offers a greeting that is not painful. (Written by Lee Giri / Minumsa)

◆Baby Farm = A novel set in a fictional surrogate mother facility. It became a bestseller last year in the United States and the United Kingdom. The 'Golden Oaks Farm' in the novel is a luxury resort for surrogate mothers located in a quiet countryside in upstate New York. Selected surrogates called 'hosts' rent out their bodies for nine months and receive monthly payments. If they successfully give birth to a healthy baby, they also receive a large bonus that can change their impoverished lives. The veiled clients are ultra-wealthy individuals. The novel's central character, Jane, is a single mother in her twenties, a Filipino immigrant raising a newborn daughter. The novel interweaves the stories of four women with different desires: Jane, her naive white idealist roommate Reagan, Mei, a Chinese mixed-race woman who oversees Golden Oaks, and Ate, Jane's cousin who works as a newborn nanny. The author, Joanne Ramos, was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin, USA, at the age of six. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from Princeton University and also worked as a journalist for The Economist. Baby Farm is her debut work. (Written by Joanne Ramos / Translated by Kim Hee-yong / Changbi)

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