[KS] You're Invited: World-famous author, Kyung-sook Shin at UC Berkeley

Mon Oct 13 13:19:24 EDT 2014

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KOREAN LITERATURE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/shin>
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN 신경숙A Universal Voice
An Intimate Conversation
세계적 작가, 신경숙과의 만남

*FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2:00-7:30pm*
UC Berkeley Alumni House, Toll Room
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?alumniHouse>

Please join us for the Bay Area debut of award-winning author, Kyung-Sook
Shin. Globally renowned author of 19 works, including the international
best-seller, “Please Look After Mom,” she is the first woman to receive the
Man Asian Literary Prize. Don't miss this opportunity for a one-on-one
interview, a Q&A session, and book signing.

Free and open to the public  •  No RSVP required
*For more: ieas.berkeley.edu/shin <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/shin>*

   [image: Kyung-sook Shin]

About Kyung-sook Shin:

Kyung-sook Shin is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed
novelists. Her writing is characterized by a profound point of view
focusing on the human mind, a resonating and colorful style utilizing
symbolism and metaphor, and an expressive and heartfelt narrative style.
Setting social changes and political situations as the backdrops of her
works, Shin mainly looks inwards at humans’ psychological wounds and
difficulty in reconciling themselves to their present and future.

Shin has been honored with the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Manhae Prize,
the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and France’s Prix
de l’Inaperçu in 2009 for the French translation of her work,* “A Lone Room
(La Chambre Solitaire),”* as well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, awarded
for her body of work for general achievement in Korean culture and the
arts. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2011 and has
been serving as Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.

  Books available for signing:
[image: Please Look After Mom]

*“Please Look After Mom”* has been translated into more than thirty
languages. It is Shin’s first book to appear in English and it has been met
with critical acclaim; since its publication, it has sold over 2 million
copies worldwide. Shin became the first Korean and first woman to receive
the Man Asian Literary Prize for the English translation of *“Please Look
After Mom” *in 2011.

  [image: I'll Be Right There]

*“I’ll Be Right There”* has been published in a number of countries,
including the US, Spain, China, Poland, Italy, and Norway, and the English
edition was published in June 2014. It has received rave reviews by media
outlets including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Guardian,
Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly and put on must-read lists in many
countries. It was included in the list of “30 Books You Need To Read in
2014” by the Huffington Post. It was also named as “the best foreign
literature in the 21st Century” in China and “the best book of the winter
2012” in Poland.

  Program

*2:00-2:10 Opening Remarks*
*Laura Nelson, Chair, Center for Korean Studies*
*Youngmin Kwon, Visiting Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures*

*2:10-3:00 Keynote Speech*
“On Modern and Contemporary Korean Fiction”
*Speaker: Christopher P. Hanscom, Professor of Korean Literature, UCLA*

*3:00-4:45 Panel on Korean Literature, Translation, and Publication*

*Chair: Daniel O’Neill, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, UC
Berkeley Participants: Bruce Fulton, Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean
Literature, University of British Columbia Jiwon Shin, Professor of Korean
Literature, Arizona State University Ha-yun Jung, Professor, Graduate
School of Translation and Interpretation, Ewha Marcella Marini,
Acquisitions Editor, Sellerio Editore*

*4:45 Coffee Break*

*5:00-6:00 A Dialogue with Kyung-sook Shin*

*Kyung-sook Shin, Writer Laura Nelson, Chair, Center for Korean Studies
Interpretation: Jiwon Shin, Professor of Korean Literature, Arizona State
University*

*6:00-7:30  Reception and Book Signing*

For detailed program of events: ieas.berkeley.edu/shin
    Learn More <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/shin>

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