Gregory Limpens
Gregory Limpens is a Belgian living in South
Korea and working for Open Books, a Korean
publishing company founded in 1986 and specializing in literature
in translation.
Gregory studied law in Belgium and worked a few years as an
intellectual property counsel (trademark law in particular) in
Belgium (2001-2005) and in Korea (2005-2007). In 2008 he switched
gears and joined Open Books, a publishing house based in Paju Book
City near Seoul. He has been active both as a rights manager
(mostly acquisitions) and a reader involved in the selection of new
titles (mostly foreign fiction). Some of his projects at Open Books
led to translations of works by Roberto Bolaño, Ali Smith, Gonçalo
M. Tavares, Pierre Lemaitre, Maylis de Kerangal, Paul Beatty and
Charles Bukowski, to name a few. He also helped Open Books' sister
company, Mimesis, build a list of foreign graphic novels, including
works by Craig Thompson, Bastien Vivès, Manuele Fior, Brecht Evens,
Stephen Collins and many others. Gregory lives in Seoul.
Website: www.openbooks.co.kr