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Festival held to mark 100th anniversary for 8 Korean writers

Festival held to mark 100th anniversary for 8 Korean writers

Posted April. 28, 2015 07:17,   

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The Daesan Foundation and the Writers Association of Korea will hold a literature festival from May 7 to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the birth of eight Korean writers. Under the theme of ‘Turbulent Era, Language of Severance and Conquest,’ the literature festival will shed new light on literature of eight literary people including poet Seo Jeong-ju and Park Mok-wol, novelist Hwang Soon-won and Im Ok-in, play writer Ham Se-deok, children’s book writer Kang So-cheon, and literature critic Kwak Jong-won and Im Soon-deuk, who were all born in the year of 1915.

The festival will begin with a symposium at the Seminar Room on the 23rd floor of Kyobo Building in Seoul, from 10 AM on May 7. Starting with introduction of Lee Soong-won, the head of Festival Planning Committee and the professor of Seoul Women’s University, critics such as Ko Bong-jun, Kim Jin-hee, Kim Eung-kyo, Won Jong-chan, Lee Choel-woo, Jeong Hye-kyeong, Kang Heon-kook, and Woo Chan-je will give presentations on writings of the eight people of letters.

On May 8, the Yeonhui Writers Residence will stage a night of literature consisting of mime performance, poem reading, video images and dance performance based on the literature of the eight literary people. As a side event, a picture exhibition focusing on Hwang Soon-won’s writings and a poet festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of poet Seo Jeong-ju will be held. The Daesan Foundation plans to publish the ‘Collection of Dissertations from Literature Festival to Commemorate the Centenary Anniversary of the Birth of Writers’ which combines symposium presentations, debate records, chronologies of writers, and the bibliography for research.



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