THE CENTER FOR KOREAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MĀNOA JOINTLY PRESENTS:
The Hee Kyung Lee Kwon Speaker Series
Thus Spoke: Kim Hyesoon, Fi Jae Lee, Jack Jung
The inaugural iteration of the Hee Kyung Lee Kwon Speaker Series that spotlights significant voices in Korean women's literature. The event will feature poetry reading, art talk, Q & A, and a book signing.
- When: September 26, 2024 at 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
- Where: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
Speakers:
Kim Hyesoon is a poet, essayist, and critic from South Korea. She was the first woman-identifying poet to win the Midang Literature Award, which she received in 2006. Kim Hyesoon’s poetry collection Phantom Pain Wings, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi (New Directions, 2023), was a highlighted Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. Her other collections include Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018), Poor Love Machine (Action Books, 2016), I’m OK, I’m Pig! (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), and All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books, 2011). Her work has been translated into many languages, including Swedish, French, German, Polish, Persian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Danish. In 2023, Kim Hyesoon and translator Don Mee Choi gave the T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading at Harvard University’s Houghton Library. She has received multiple literary prizes, including the Samsung Ho-Am Prize, UK Royal Society of Literature International Writer Award, Cikada Prize, Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award, Griffin Poetry Prize, Daesan Poetry Award, Sowol Poetry Award, and Kim Su-Yong Literary Award. She lives in Seoul.
Based in Seoul, Korea, Fi Jae Lee received her B.F.A and M.F.A at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her paintings and sculptures have been introduced in many exhibitions including sixteen solo shows, held in Korea, Japan, France and the United States. She has participated in several artist residency programs, such as Goyang Art Studio (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 2011), SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul Museum of Art, 2014) and Bilbaoarte (Fundación Bilbaoarte Fundazioa Spain 2017). She also appeared as one of six artists in a reality TV show, Artstar Season 2, New York. Her work is part of the permanent collection of National Museum of Contemporary Art and Seoul Museum of Art.
Jack Jung is a poet and literary translator. He primarily translates Korean poetry into English and teaches at Davidson College. Prior to Davidson, he taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and led Korean poetry translation workshops at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. He is also a mentor for Korean poetry translation in the American Literary Translation Association's emerging translator program. His translations of poetry and prose by a major Korean modernist poet Yi Sang (1910-1937) is published in Yi Sang: Selected Works, edited by Don Mee Choi (Wave Books 2020).
The event is free and open to all. For further information, including information regarding disability access, telephone the Center for Korean Studies at 808-956-7041. The University of Hawai‘i is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.