[KS] reading at Barnard College, Tuesday April 26

SusanKKim at cs.com SusanKKim at cs.com
Mon Apr 25 10:20:29 EDT 2005


Dear Korean Studies Listserv,

For those of you who live in or near NYC,  there is an upcoming reading that may be of interest:


THE FORGOTTEN WAR’S NEWEST GENERATION:  A READING and DISCUSSION
 
SUSAN CHOI,
author of The Foreign Student and American Woman

and

SUJI KWOCK KIM,  
author of Notes from the Divided Country

TUESDAY,  APRIL 26, 2004,  7pm
Barnard College,  Columbia University

Barnard Hall,  W. 117th/Broadway
Sulzberger Parlor,  3rd Floor
free admission
Barnard College Forum on Migration,  curated by Caryl Phillips 
_______________________________

Two Noted Korean Writers to Explore "The Forgotten War's Newest Generation" 

Novelist Susan Choi and poet Suji Kwock Kim, two members of the newest generation of Korean-American writers, will read and discuss selections from their work as part of Barnard's Forum on Migration.   The event will take place on Tuesday, April 26 th at 7 p.m. in the Sulzberger Parlor on the 3 rd floor of Barnard Hall (W. 117th Street and Broadway), and is free and open to the public. 

Much of Choi’s and Kim's work relates to their parents' experiences during the Korean War, the "Forgotten War" in which perhaps as many as four million Koreans died.   For writers of their generation, coming to terms with this terrible past shapes their work; as Kim puts it in a recent poem: "what survives cannot survive unscathed, not fallen/ burr or shoot,/ not fists of spore or snarled taproot." 

SUSAN CHOI is the daughter of a Korean immigrant father whose life history inspired her first novel, THE FOREIGN STUDENT , which won the Asian-American Literary Award and the Steven Turner Award for a First Book of Fiction.   Her second novel, AMERICAN WOMAN , was published by HarperCollins and was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. 

SUJI KWOCK KIM’s first book, NOTES FROM THE DIVIDED COUNTRY , won the NATION/ Discvoery Award,  the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets,  and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award,  and was a finalist for the 2004 PEN Center USA Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize.   Her recent poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times,  Slate, The Nation, The New Republic, and National Public Radio. 

The Barnard Forum on Migration is a series of seminars, lectures, and readings that explore issues connected to the movement of people from one part of the world to another.   The Forum on Migration is curated by Caryl Phillips, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order.   For more information, please contact Petra Tuomi, Barnard College Office of Public Affairs, (212) 854-7907. 





More information about the Koreanstudies mailing list