PEN AMERICA World Voices Festival: Highlighting Korean Writers


A Celebration of International Literature and Writers

PEN AMERICA World Voices Festival: Highlighting Korean Writers

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May 10th - 13th, 2023


Opening Night: Ottessa Moshfegh Presents: Why Write?

  • 5/10, 8pm at The New School auditorium

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  • Ottessa Moshfegh speaks with three very different novelists—Rachel Kushner (The Mars Room, Flamethrowers), Min Jin Lee (Pachinko, Free Food for Millionaires), and Akhil Sharma (Family Life, A Life of Adventure and Delight)—to discuss why they write, and how they want their readers to read.


Greek Lessons: Han Kang in Conversation with Katie Kitamura

  • 5/12, 8pm at the Strand Book Store

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  • Han Kang, one of South Korea’s leading literary voices, joins the World Voices Festival for the North American launch of her new novel, Greek Lessons in conversation with Katie Kitamura.


Spirited Away - Haunted Novels 

  • 5/12, 9pm at Joe's Pub 

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  • Four acclaimed writers–Namwali Serpell (The Furrows), Kevin Chen (Ghost Town), Joseph Han (Nuclear Family), and Samanta Schweblin (Seven Empty Houses) convene for a special event exploring the invisible forces, spectral presences, and haunting memories that shape their work.


Translation Manifesto 

  • 5/13, 12pm at AIA Center for Architecture

  • FREE, but RSVP is required here.

  • PEN is thrilled to welcome activists from the translation community to the World Voices Festival stage for a roundtable discussion. With Anton Hur, Bonnie Chau, Jennifer Croft, Aaron Robertston, and Alexa Frank.

Kaleidoscope: Poetic Forms and Collective Histories

  • 5/13, 2pm at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers' House

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  • Join PEN America for a conversation with leading poets Monica Youn (From From) and Courtney Faye Taylor, and moderator Douglas Kearney.


 
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