Award-winning Author 李敏镇 访问s HVCC on 4月13日

2023年4月5日

She is known for both her widely-published essays 和 monumental novels

National Book Award finalist 李敏镇, a prolific essayist 和 the author of two, acclaimed novels, will visit Hudson Valley Community College on Thursday, 4月13日, to discuss her writing 和 rising career. Beginning at 11 a.m. in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium on the Troy campus, the event will include time for audience questions 和 a book signing. It is free to the public.

李敏镇’s fiction explores the intersections of race, 种族, class, 宗教, gender 和 identity of displaced people. Her second novel, “Pachinko” is an epic story that follows four generations of a Korean family that migrates to Japan in the early 1900s. It was a finalist for the National Book Award 和 one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2017. Lee is currently adapting her debut novel, “Free Food for Millionaires” (2007), for a Netflix series.

The 2022 Manhae Gr和 Prize for Literature, named for the 20th-century South Korean Buddhist reformer 和 poet, is one of her many literary awards. Her short works 和 essays have appeared in 《正规博彩平台》, NPR的 选择短裤，一个故事， The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine 和 Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, 《推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜》, Condé Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Food & 酒, 时尚 和 The Wall Street Journal.

Lee earned fiction fellowships from the Guggenheim 基金会, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, 和 the New York 基金会 for the Arts. She studied history at Yale College, law at Georgetown University, 和 practiced law for two years before turning to writing. Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea 和 immigrated to Queens with her family when she was seven years old. She currently teaches fiction 和 essay writing at Amherst College 和 lives in New York City.

The 4月13日 event is presented by the Cultural Affairs Program in collaboration with the English, Foreign Languages 和 English as a Second Language Department at HVCC.

Contact Debby Gardner at d.gardner@ngskmc-eis.net or (518) 629-8071 for more information. If you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the Center for Access 和 Assistive Technology at caat@ngskmc-eis.net, (518) 629-7154, TDD (518) 629-7596.