Korea: Divisions and Borders - Wasafiri Special Issue 96 Launch Event

Join Wasafiri Magazine at the Korean Cultural Centre UK to celebrate the launch of the Wasafiri Special Issue 96 – Korea: Divisions and Border.

The event includes a panel discussion with Phillip Y Kim, Krys Lee and Brother Anthony.

Tickets are free but RSVP is essential.

In association with the Wasafiri Magazine and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

About the panellists:

Phillip Y Kim is the Managing Editor of Asia Literary Review, a periodical which has published writing from and about Asia for over a decade. He is the author of Nothing Gained, published by Penguin Random House (China) in 2013. He is a Korean American who has lived in London since early 2015. He serves as a director on the Arts Advisory Board of Asia House in London. He has written for and presented on media platforms such as the BBC, Prospect magazine, Monocle 24 Radio and TVB (Hong Kong).

Krys Lee is the author of the short story collection Drifting House and the novel How I Became a North Korean, both published by Faber and Faber and Penguin Random House. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award and a finalist for the BBC International Short Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary translations have been published in Granta, Narrative, BBC, The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, and theGuardian among others. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Yonsei University, Underwood International College.

Brother Anthony of Taizé was born in England in 1942 and has lived in Korea since 1980. He is a translator of more than forty published volumes of translations of Korean poetry, and several novels, for which he has received many awards. He is a professor emeritus of Sogang University and a chair-professor of Dankook University.