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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>This week’s <I>New Yorker</I> magazine includes its first short story by a Korean author, namely Yi Mun-yol’s 1982 novella, “An Anonymous Island”. I was so pleased to see a Korean author’s reaching a broad, very literate and engaged audience. In 1996, when I began to produce “Korean Short Stories”, theatrical readings of a dozen 20th Century works for national public radio distribution in the USA, getting English language translations of Korean short fiction was next to impossible to find in general bookstores in the USA. Thanks to a number of members of this list who served on my advisory committee, the series was a great success, but was only broadcast once by KCRW (Santa Monica CA) and afterwards about five other stations in the USA. It is a pity that the Korea Foundation, one of the supporters of this project (with the California Commission on the Humanities) never pursued obtaining rights to distribute it to universities, libraries and, perhaps more importantly, as audio recordings for general purchase. <BR>
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/09/12/110912fi_fiction_yi">http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/09/12/110912fi_fiction_yi</a><BR>
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