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<div class="moz-forward-container">‘Books and People: a Korean
Cornucopia’
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;layout-grid-mode:char">A lecture by Brother Anthony (in
person)</p>
Emeritus Professor, Department of English Language and Literature,
Sogang University
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;layout-grid-mode:char">Brother Anthony of Taizé has
donated to the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, his
extensive library of nineteenth and early twentieth-century
books by foreigners on Korea and will offer comments on selected
books and the personalities behind them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;layout-grid-mode:char">Brother Anthony of Taizé
(naturalized Korean name An Sonjae) studied Medieval and Modern
languages at Oxford. In 1969 he joined the Taizé Community in
France. After three years' service in a Philippine slum, in May
1980, Brother Anthony joined other brothers in Korea, invited by
the late Archbishop of Seoul, Cardinal Kim Sou-Hwan. He taught
English literature at Sogang University, Seoul, for nearly three
decades, while translating works of modern Korean literature and
also writing books and articles about literature and
translation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;layout-grid-mode:char">Brother Anthony has published a
wide variety of works by classical writers and modern writers.
In 1991 he won a Modern Korean Literature Translation Award from
The Korea Times for his translation of "Headmaster Abe" by Ko
Un. He served as President of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea
Branch (2011-2020). He was awarded the Korean government's Order
of Cultural Merit, Jade Crown class, in October 2008 for his
work in promoting knowledge of Korean literature in the world.
In 2015 he received an MBE. He currently lives in Seoul.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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Nizami Ganjavi Library</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;layout-grid-mode:char">Convener: Professor Jieun Kiaer,
MA</p>
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