Park Sang-young and Bora Chung to meet with Swedish readers
On Monday, Park will meet local readers at Kulturhuset, a cultural complex in Stockholm, following a screening of "Love in the Big City," a film adaptation of his book starring Kim Go-eun and Noh Sang-hyun. The event will be moderated by Kim Eun-ah, who translated the book into Swedish.
On Wednesday, Chung will appear on Solen, a literary live podcast hosted by Stockholm librarians, to celebrate the Swedish release of her novel "Cursed Bunny." Later that day, she will join her English-language translator, Anton Hur, in a discussion of the book at Soderbokhandeln, Sweden's oldest independent bookstore.
Both authors will also take part in Littfest, Sweden's largest literary festival, March 13-15.
Park was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 for "Love in the Big City," while Chung was shortlisted the same year for "Cursed Bunny." Both novels were translated into English by Hur.
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