The Korea Society and KoreanAmericanStory.org co-host a literary conversation and reception with three accomplished Korean-American writers: Catherine Chung, Eugenia Kim, and Yuliana Kim-Grant. These authors have written deeply personal and moving novels about loss, hope, and heritage and will share both their stories, as well as their characters’, with readings from their books. Each of these debut novels garnered critical acclaim:
Forgotten Country (2012) by Catherine Chung
"I was left utterly devastated by the wonder and heartbreak captured in these pages. Forgotten Country is overflowing with folktales and family secrets, with American and Korean traditions, with haunting prose and mathematical beauty. Here is a book to cherish, and to celebrate."
—Justin Torres, author of We The Animals
The Calligrapher’s Daughter (2010) by Eugenia Kim
"Eugenia Kim’s sweeping debut. . . rises tall from a riveting scene that begs to be read and re-read—as does her entire novel about the painful change that Japanese occupation and modern ways bring to traditional, ritualistic Korea. . . . "
—Geeta Sharma Jensen, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
A Shred of Hope (2011) by Yuliana Kim-Grant
"Each moment of Yuliana Kim-Grant's novel is strikingly unique and recognizably familiar. . . . Her compassionate but unflinting portrait turns the opaque rock of the lives of the Parks and the Pattersons into the translucent diamond formed by A Shred of Hope."
—Amazon Review
Monday, February 11, 2013
6:30 PM
Monday Salon @ The Korea Society: A Trio of Writers
with
Catherine Chung
Author, Forgotten Country
Eugenia Kim
Author, The Calligrapher’s Daughter
Yuliana Kim-Grant
Author, A Shred of Hope
Catherine Chung is the author of the novel Forgotten Country, and a fiction editor at Guernica Magazine. She is a Granta New Voice, and a fellow of The MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, and Yaddo. Her work has appeared in The Journal, Epoch Magazine, and Quarterly West, among others, and she has taught creative writing at The University of Leipzig and Cornell University, where she received her MFA. She currently lives in New York City. (Photo credit: Ayano Hisa)
Eugenia Kim’s debut novel, The Calligrapher’s Daughter, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a Washington Post Best Historical Novel of 2009. An MFA graduate of Bennington College, Kim now teaches at Fairfield University’s MFA Creative Writing Program. She is the 2012 Eli Cantor Fellow for the Corporation of Yaddo, 2011 Stanford Calderwood Fellow for The MacDowell Colony, and a fellow at Hedgebrook. She lives in Washington, DC.
Yuliana Kim-Grant received her MFA in Creative Writing Fiction from Emerson College. Her novel, A Shred of Hope was published in the spring of 2011 by Aberdeen Bay Publishing. Her non-fiction essay, Middle Passage, appears in an anthology entitled, Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work, and Family. Another non-fiction essay, Nigger—A World Divided was runner-up for the Creative Non-Fiction contest, judged by Faith Adiele and published by Slab, The Sound and Literary Art Book of Slippery Rock University. She is currently at work on a second novel. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
