Dasom Yang

🇰🇷 Writer/translator. she/her. MPhil in Creative Writing from @TCDDublin. Member of @smoking_tigers. Editorial Assistant @willowherbrvw. 🌿

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

Writing this essay helped me process, remember, understand. Publishing it helped me move on & connect. Thinking about the permanence of record in publishing—the idea of “imprint”, of my memory, me, living elsewhere—often scares me, but I found a perfect home for this one here. 🍑

[The Dublin Review @TheDublinReview]

FROM OUR CURRENT ISSUE. number eighty-four | AUTUMN 2021 features new writing by Greg Baxter, Dasom Yang, Niamh Donnelly, Hilary A. White, Virginia Hartley, Robert McGill, and Chloe Tomlinson.

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

@_ryanruby_ I feel famous now!

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

So so excited to read this *stunning* debut!

[Anton Hur @AntonHur]

MY NOVEL

COMES OUT

TONIGHT ✨🪐

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

Dublin friends, tune in for the best of Korea!

[Anton Hur @AntonHur]

Kyung-Sook Shin and I are coming to Dublin!

[The Millions @The_Millions]

"I’ve never been interested in making a claim to originality."

@jae_yeon_yoo talks with Kate Briggs about translation, motherhood, and 'The Long Form.' https://t.co/K8iTbhtASY

[shanna @heyimshanna]

The Cure for Burnout Might Be … Work? - love this ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ review of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop https://t.co/5hUwhZV6OC

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

Participating in this workshop was the best thing I did last year for my writing (and for my mental health). The quality of care and mentorship The Stinging Fly community offers is incomparable. I highly recommend everyone to apply 💯

[The Stinging Fly @stingingfly]

Applications for our Summer School are now open and close on April 2nd.

One free place available on each workshop with a concession rate also on offer for anyone who is unwaged or on low income.

Come join us!

https://t.co/I8pd3hcLPo

[Anton Hur @AntonHur]

Please pre-order my debut novel from your favorite local bookstore 🙇🏻‍♂️ Pre-orders make a huge difference! https://t.co/UwA4qDsPGD

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

One of my favorite contemporary Korean novels now in English via e. yaewon’s exquisite translation.

[Tilted Axis @TiltedAxisPress]

Happy #PubDay to ☔️DD'S UMBRELLA☔️ by Hwang Jungeun, translated from Korean by e. yaewon.

A delicate and arresting queer novel about mourning and revolution from one of Korea’s most celebrated experimental writers.

Available on our website from today.

https://t.co/HujwVugsDq

[chogwa zine @chogwazine]

issue 13: 62 translations of “Eoneu nal” by Lee Sumyeong

https://t.co/4seAK4ZPLD

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

@AntonHur HOT

[Anton Hur @AntonHur]

You can tell a lot about an author by the way they think of and treat translators.

[Anton Hur @AntonHur]

Many have asked for this to be posted, it is now posted 💁🏻‍♂️

Translators With Luv: Collaboration in Translation

Slin Jung, @clarehannahmary, and me in conversation with @p_niyahmorris for @bcltuea discussing co-translation, collectives, and mentorship 💜 https://t.co/EIBPdl1cyo

[Honford Star @honfordstar]

Just wrapped up a great discussion on The Age of Doubt with @KCCUK's Eunji, @ilsangdabaansa and You Jeong Kim! Thanks to everyone who joined us! 📕

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

Frosty morning train ride

[박경리 봇 @PakKyungNi_bot]

감정이 풍부한 사람일수록 순수한 사랑을 한다. 그러나 그러한 상태를 따지고 보면 아무리 그 행위가 희생적이라는 명칭으로 불리어지는 것이라 할지라도 필경 이기적인 행위에 불과하며 가장 자기자신을 사랑할줄 아는 사람만이 그러한 순수상태에 몰입하는 것이다.

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

Actually found “Banshees of Inisherin” very empowering - seemed to tell me that no matter right or wrong, good or bad, I CAN choose to live differently just because I want to, that the act of choosing itself is valid and noble and can be a beginning of something new.

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

Things I read this past year that sustained me, saved me

[박경리 봇 @PakKyungNi_bot]

나는 완전히 자유다. 이런 경지에 섰을때 사람은 과연 그 고독에 이겨 나갈 수 있겠읍니까. 나를 위하여 기뻐할 사람도 슬퍼할 사람도 없고 어떠한 의무나 사랑의 유대도 갖지 않았다고 깨달았을때 그 넓고 무한한 공간은 어떻게 심상에 작용해 오는 것일까요.

[Dasom Yang @ilsangdabaansa]

What irks me is especially the gendered way we talk about it (reflects a lot of how we talk about gendered behavior):”women apologize way more than men, so tell women to stop apologizing”. Maybe men need to just apologize more? Maybe we as a society are truly just sorry people???