Archana Madhavan is a literary translator from Korean into English. Her first book-length work is a cotranslation of Glory Hole by Kim Hyun (Seagull Books, 2022). Her other poetry and prose translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Columbia Journal, The Puritan, and Korean Literature Now, and are forthcoming elsewhere. In 2022, Archana was chosen as an ALTA Emerging Translator to translate poetry from Lee Jenny’s collection 아마도 아프리카 (Maybe Africa, Changbi, 2010).
Translation Folio
Spring 2023
Unappeasable Peas
Translator’s Note On translating poetry, Ezra Pound once wrote, “That which appeals to the ear can reach only those who take [the poem] in the original [language].” Yet in my […]