Two Noted Korean Writers to Explore "The Forgotten War's Newest Generation"
New York, NY - 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 (117 th Street and Broadway), and is free and open to the public.
Much of Choi 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 Choi and Kim's 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 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her recent poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and on 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 organized by Caryl Phillips, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order. Lectures held by the Forum on Migration are supported by a bequest establishing the Weiss International Fellowship Fund to bring distinguished scholars in the literature and the arts to Barnard. For more information, please contact Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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