Brilliant to hosting a Korean Literature Night once again, following events on Han Kang, Kim Hyesoon and Choi Don-Mee. My work with the Korean Cultural Centre has been a real joy, stretching back to 2019 now. This one, on April 28th, is online, and can be booked here https://kccuk.org.uk/en/programmes/korean-literature-nights/yi-sang-selected-works-jack-jung-conversation-steven-j-fowler/

YI SANG: SELECTED WORKS - JACK JUNG IN CONVERSATION WITH STEVEN J. FOWLER

28 APR 2021 - 7PM KOREAN LITERATURE NIGHT / APPLICATION WINDOW CLOSES - 15TH APRIL 2021

The Korean Literature Night (KLN) is a monthly discussion group that explores various themes and topics relating to that month’s chosen book. Our Korean Literature Night has gone online to ensure that you can still be a part of some great discussions about fantastic literature.

Join us for a bilingual reading from Yi Sang: Selected Works with one of its translators, poet Jack Jung, as well as a conversation with moderator Steven J. Fowler. Following the talk, Jack Jung will respond to questions from the audience.

Yi Sang (1910-1937) was a painter, architect, poet and writer of 1930s Korea and one of Korea’s most innovative writers of modern literature enough to deem him Korea’s finest modernist. Yi Sang: Selected Works is the first major collection of the electrifying, experimental writer whose short, yet exceptional, body of work has enthralled readers and scholars since the 1930s.

YI SANG: SELECTED WORKS Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world literature in the early twentieth century and the political upheaval of 1930s Japanese occupied Korea. While his life ended prematurely at the age of twenty-seven, Yi Sang’s work endures as one of the great revolutionary legacies of modern Korean literature. His work shows innovative engagement with European modernism, especially that of Surrealism and Dada.