The Korean Cultural Centre UK presents an evening with Jiyoung Han, celebrating her debut novel Honey in the Wound. Jiyoung Han was born in Seoul and raised in the American Midwest, and now lives in San Francisco. A lyrical and suspenseful work, Honey in the Wound follows a Korean family across decades of displacement during … [Read More]
Author: SJ Kim
Selected publications by SJ Kim
- This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures, WW Norton 2024
SJ Kim and Juhea Kim at Foyles ESEA Lit Fest
The UK’s award-winning East and South East Asian literary festival returns to Foyles Charing Cross Road on Saturday 20 September 2025 for a day of conversation, workshops, book signings and a lunchtime bake sale hosted by Polly Chan’s Bakehouse fundraising for Sesame Organisation. Featured in the Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle, ESEA Lit Fest is … [Read More]
This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures with SJ Kim
SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity and sensitivity, she writes letters to the institutions that simultaneously support and fail her, intimate accounts of immigration, and interrogations of rising anti-Black and anti-Asian racism. She considers the silences between … [Read More]