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LITERATURE

UPCOMING LITERARY EVENTS

Although there is currently nothing available due to the current global pandemic of COVID-19, we look forward to returning in the near future and bringing you the best of Korean literature and prose. Check back often as we will add events as soon as they become available.

2018

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Book Reading: KyungSook Shin

September 25, Boston University

co-sponsored with Wellesley College


Kyungsook Shin, 2012 awardee of the Man Asian Literacy Prize, read parts from her recently English-translated 'Court Dancer.' The book depicts historic events being unfolded through the eyes of a court dancer favored by the Empress Min in the period of Korean Annexation by Japan.


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Performance tradition of korean Poetry

Thursday, September 27, 2 PM

Barat House, Boston College

co-sponsored with Korean Consulate General in Boston


'Sijo' - Dr. David McCann (Professor Emeritus, Harvard U.)

'Pansori' - Dr. Ivanna Yi (Washington U.)

Sijo performance (Hwang Chin-i) by David McCann

Pansori performance by Ivanna Yi

2017

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Poetry reading: Sandra Lim

October 12, Wellesley College

Sandra Lim, professor in UMass Lowell and the winner of a Barnard Women Poets Prize in 2013, gave a poetry reading from her 2014 poetry collection, Wilderness.

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