** The literature club meeting will be held only In-Person tonight, with NO Zoom online meeting. The Zoom meeting has been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. 

Dear Friends,

For the first meeting of 2024, we will read and discuss ‘September Is a Prayer for the Estranged’ by Kim Byungwoon (Translated by Paige Aniyah Morris)

The meeting will be held ONLINE & IN-PERSON.

WHEN_Thursday. January 11, 2024.  7:30PM (Seoul)
WHERE_Online Zoom & B1, North Terrace Cafe (near Anguk Station or Jongno-3ga Station (SUBWAY Line 1, 3, or 5))
READ_ ‘September Is a Prayer for the Estranged’ by Kim Byungwoon (Translated by Paige Aniya Morris)
LEADER_Jenny Byun

BOOK READING ONLINE Korean Literature Now (Vol.62 Winter 2023) 

About the Author

Kim Byungwoon began his writing career by winning the 2014 Writer’s World New Writer’s Award. He is the author of the short story collection What We Say When We Are Waiting and the novel The Little-Known Filmography of Actor Gong Sang-pyo, as well as the essay collection, Anyhow, Bangkok. He was awarded the 2022 Munhakdongne Young Writers’ Award.

About the Translator 

Paige Aniyah Morris is a writer and translator of Korean literature. She holds BAs in Ethnic Studies and Literary Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. The recipient of awards from the Daesan Foundation, the American Literary Translators Association, and the Fulbright Program, her writing and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, Samovar, The Georgia Review, The Rumpus, Strange Horizons, Nabillera, and more. She divides her time between the US and South Korea.

VENUE: Online Zoom & In-person 

• In-Person: The ‘North Terrace Cafe (Basement)’ is located at 12 Yulgok-ro 10-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul.  Go to Anguk Station on the Orange #3 Line.  Go out Exit 4 and do an immediate U-turn on the sidewalk.  Then take a right in front of the Japanese Cultural Center and walk towards Changdeok-gung, but on the opposite side of the main street (Yulgok-ro) from the palace.  Please note the below map.

• Online Zoom Link:  *Please note that the Zoom online is not available for today’s meeting. We apologize for the inconvenience.