[KLN] A discussion with author Kim Ae-Ran

Event Date: 27 June, 18:00pm-20:45pm

18:00-Reception

19:00- Korean Literature Essay Competition UK 2018 Pitch/awarding ceremony

19:30- Discussion with Kim Ae Ran

Venue: Korean Cultural Centre UK

Entrance Free - Booking Essential

Apply to info@kccuk.org.uk or call 020 7004 2600 with your name and contact details.

The booking system utilises a lottery based programme that picks names at random, once the final selection has been drawn we will send you an e-mail regarding the result of the selection.

Kim Ae-Ran

Kim majored in playwriting at the Korean National University of Arts. Kim's debut work "No Knocking in This House," a short story published in 2003, is about five women living in five separate rooms in a boarding house, where the rooms are tiny and close together. It won a Daesan Literary Award. Next, her short story collection, Run, Daddy, Run, entered the spotlight, earning her the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award in 2005. Twenty-five years old at the time of the award, Kim was the youngest award winner ever recorded. In 2008, her short story "Knife Marks" won the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award. Her work has begun to be more widely translated and her novel, The Youngest Parents with the Oldest Child, was brought to the screen as My Brilliant Life (2014) by the acclaimed film director E J-yong. Kim is widely regarded as one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of millennial Koreans, articulating through her writing the challenges they face in a rapidly changing society.

About the Book

Based on three short fiction pieces published in issues 30 & 34 of the Asia Literary Review: 'The Youngest Parents With the Oldest Child', 'A Dignified Existence' and 'Where Would You Like to Go?'.