## A Wealth of Foreign Literature Awaits Our Reading Thirst
Aside from Yukio Mishima and Han Suyin, I had not heard about, nor thought to read any other author from Japan or China, let alone South Korea. Until that is I went back to Uni for the third time. Studying *Translation* was for me, an eye opener. Up to that time, I’d only read in French and English from French and English-speaking authors (except — for every rule there is an exception — for some Latin and Grec or Russian classics in translation).
Look at my book shelf now (a single shelf from many others). How it has changed since. And for that change I thank all translators who have widened my world view as a result of their hard (I truly know it now) work. I am overjoyed to see that more and more publishing houses are beginning to place the translator’s name on their covers (and adding a short bio of them somewhere in the book itself). Their work (arguably each book a *new work*) is finally given recognition by the book industry. Now, please dear dolly, give me more hours to read.
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