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Speaker: Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction. Among their awards and fellowships are a PEN America Heim Translation grant for One Left, two U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, and the first residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre awarded to translators from any Asian language. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural occupant of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, and the recipient of a 2018 Manhae Grand Prize in Literature.
Translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton will discuss One Left, their translation of the first Korean novel to focus on the Korean "comfort women" of World War II. They will focus on the question of why it has taken 75 years for such a novel to be written, on the way in which author Kim Soom has interwoven the testimony of the surviving women with a fictional narrative taking place in present-day Seoul, and on broader issues of social justice, truth and reconciliation, and trauma and healing.

This workshop series is supported by the Asian Studies Center Virtual Speaker Program and is organized by the Council on Korean Studies (CKS)