About

Fall into the fantastical and creative worlds authors Bora Chung and Canisia Lubrin have created in their short story collections, Your Utopia and Code Noir. Chung first book in translation Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize brings to Toronto Your Utopia (translated by Anton Hur) blends horror, absurdity and dark humour in dystopian tales of immortality and human frailty. While Lubrin is an award-winning poet, editor and writer whose last book The Dyzgraphxst won The Griffin Prize. Her new book Code Noir features 59 interconnected stories inspired by historical decrees on slavery, spanning genres from realism to dystopia. The two authors will share what inspired these collections and the profound social commentary woven throughout them.

Moderator: Tanya Turton

Please note, the date, time and location of this event has changed. This event will now take place on September 22.

This event is supported by WOW Culture Lab Seoul and KOFICE.

Your Utopia

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Bora Chung

Bora Chung translates modern literary works from Russian and Polish into Korean and writes generally unrealistic stories. Among her works, Cursed Bunny, a collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 and was a finalist for National Book Awards in 2023.

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Canisia Lubrin

Canisia Lubrin’s books include Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin’s work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Derek Walcott Prize, the Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Stars prize and others.

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Photo credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths.