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Gina Chung and Yun Ko-eun on Writing Short Stories

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In this conversation hosted by the Korea Society, authors Gina Chung and Yun Ko-eun discuss the many possibilities of the short story form, the defining characteristics of their respective authorial voices, and the differences between writing and reading stories in English and Korean.

Crystal Hana Kim on The Stone Home

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For this event at the Korea Society in New York, Crystal Hana Kim speaks about writing her second novel, The Stone Home (William Morrow, 2024), in a conversation with author Susan Choi. Kim’s essay “Thinning the Line: On Multilingual Literature, Cultural Memory, and Writing as Translation” appears in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Yu Miri: The End of August

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In this event hosted by the Korea Society in New York, prolific and award-winning author Yu Miri talks about her family’s history under Japanese occupation, her struggles writing for Japanese and Korean readers as a Zainichi Korean author, and the themes in her latest translated novel, The End of August (Riverhead Books, 2023), translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles.

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