2023-06-13 05:52:11
The 2023 Seoul International Book Fair, the largest book festival in Korea, will be held at COEX in Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul from the 14th to the 18th.
The 65th book fair since the first held in 1954 is the first international book fair to be held since the COVID-19 quarantine measures were completely lifted.
This year’s book fair is participated by 530 publishers (360 domestic and 170 overseas), writers and related organizations from 36 countries under the theme of ‘NONHUMAN, beyond non-humans’. Famous foreign writers such as Yann Martel, winner of the British Booker Prize, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will visit Korea, and a large number of officials from the Sharjah Islands Authority of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Canada, the ‘Spotlight Country’, will also visit Korea.
215 famous writers and speakers from home and abroad participate and meet readers through 170 programs including exhibitions, side events, lectures, and seminars.
Publishers and culture officials from Sharjah, the Alex Reed country, introduce various cultures such as Arabic language, literature, and art through book talks, book exhibitions, and cultural performances at lecture halls and Alex Reed country pavilions within the book fair.
Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi, Director of the Sharjah Islands Authority, said, “The role of culture is most important in shaping the relationship between a city and a country.” By encouraging mutual translation of literature, I hope it will serve as an opportunity to promote exchanges between the two countries in knowledge, literature and art.”
Among foreign writers, Yann Martel, who won the Man Booker Prize for ‘The Story of Pi’, will visit Korea for the first time and share his thoughts on human creativity in a lecture on ‘What is human?’
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Sympathizers,” gave a lecture on “Asian Diaspora and American Literature,” while sociologist Nikolai Schultz gave a seminar on “Earth Disease: Sense and Think regarding a Sick Earth.” open Korean-American novelist Kim Joo-hye also meets Korean readers.
As for domestic writers’ programs, Kim Ae-ran and Choi Eun-young talk regarding minorities under the theme of ‘Alienating the marginalized’, and Chun Myeong-gwan, the finalist for the Booker Prize this year, holds a book talk and talks regarding his work and attends the Booker Prize. I will tell you the back story.
Six novelists Oh Jeong-hee, Kim In-suk, Pyeon Hye-young, Kim Ae-ran, Choi Eun-yeong, and Cheon Seon-ran, who are public relations ambassadors for the book fair, will give a lecture on the theme of ‘Literature as Non-Human’.
In addition, ecologist Professor Choi Jae-cheon, Kim Yeon-soo, Kim Cho-yeop, Kim Geum-hee, Jung Ji-don, Kim Mela, and other writers, lyricist Kim Ea-na, writer Lee Seul-ah, and translator Hwang Seok-hee will be on the podium.
In thematic seminars, we talk regarding human interaction with generative AI (Artificial Intelligence), which has recently gathered topics, the climate crisis and the future of mankind, and the human appearance of non-humans through the science fiction world.
Following last year, this year, you can also meet the ‘Book Village’ space where you can meet publishers and bookstores that produce independent publications and art books. 72 independent publishers in Korea and bookstores and independent publishers from 5 Asian countries (Thailand, Singapore, Japan, China, and Taiwan) participate.
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