The KCC’s literature nights resume in virtual form after a lockdown break. June’s book is selected for its relevance to the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi Thursday 25 June 2020, 7pm on Zoom Participation Free – Booking Essential Apply to [email protected] or call 020 7004 … [Read More]
Translator: Don Mee Choi
Selected translations
- Kim Hyesoon: Phantom Pain Wings tr Don Mee Choi, New Directions 2023
- Yi Sang: Yi Sang: Selected Works tr Don Mee Choi, Jack Jung, Joyelle McSweeney, Sawako Nakayasu, Wave Books 2020
- Kim Hyesoon: Autobiography of Death tr Don Mee Choi, New Directions 2018
- Anthology: Poems of Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook + Kim Min Jeong ed Jiyoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, Jake Levine and Johannes Göransson, Vagabond Press 2017
- Kim Hyesoon: Poor Love Machine tr Don Mee Choi, Action Books 2016
- Kim Yideum: Cheer Up, Femme Fatale tr Don Mee Choi, Johannes Göransson, Lee Jiyoon, Action Books 2016
- Kim Hyesoon: I’m OK, I’m Pig! tr Don Mee Choi, Bloodaxe 2014
- Kim Hyesoon: Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream tr Don Mee Choi, Action Books 2014
- Anthology: Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women ed Don Mee Choi, Zephyr Press 2006
Publications by Don Mee Choi as author
- Mirror Nation, Wave Books 2024
- DMZ Colony, Wave Books 2020
- Hardly War, Wave Books 2016
Upcoming literature and fiction titles in 2020 [updated]
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I’m hoping that, as in previous years, by posting my own list of upcoming literature and fiction titles – pulled together by some targeted searching on Amazon and a trawl through Barbara J Zitwer’s website – I might persuade others to supplement it from their own specialist knowledge. Whatever happens, books inevitably fall through the … [Read More]
Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon win 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon for winning the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize with Autobiography of Death. In an interesting way of recognising the relationship between the creators of the original text and the translated work, the collection is credited as being “by Don Mee Choi, translated from the Korean written by … [Read More]
Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi in National Poetry Library Lates
An evening of poetry from two South Korean poets at the Hayward Gallery: National Poetry Library Lates: May Wednesday 1 May 2019, 8pm Hayward Gallery | Dan Graham Waterloo Sunset Pavilion Approximate run time: 120 mins Tickets £10 + booking fee | Book tickets here Our new series of late-night poetry salons continues with two … [Read More]
Upcoming literature and fiction titles for 2019
Here’s my first attempt at compiling a list of fiction and poetry titles coming up in 2019. Let me know what I’ve missed. Unlike my separate list of non-fiction I have not exercised any editorial control here: this is everything I have been able to find. The list is in four parts: Modern and contemporary … [Read More]
Event news: Poetry reading by Don Mee Choi
After this evening’s poetry reading in the Coronet Theatre’s wonderful Print Room in Notting Hill Gate, Don Mee Choi will be giving another reading at SOAS, tomorrow evening. She promises she will be wearing a special costume for the occasion, at which she will be reading from her 2016 work, Hardly War. Poetry reading by … [Read More]
Event news: an evening of poetry by Don Mee Choi and Denise Riley
Looks like an interesting evening, celebrating the work of a Korean and a British poet, and marking the launch of Modern Poetry in Translation‘s Korean edition. Poetry @ the Print Room Print Room at the Coronet | 103 Notting Hill Gate | London W11 3LB | www.the-print-room.org 21 March 2017, 7:30pm | £10 | Book … [Read More]