Day of Translation 2024: Keynote
Don Mee Choi delivers the keynote address, titled “My Hardly English.”
On September 26, 2024, the Center for the Art of Translation presented its annual Day of Translation, co-hosted by The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and livestreamed worldwide.
The day concluded with a keynote address delivered by National Book Award-winning poet and translator Don Mee Choi.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the KOR-US trilogy: Mirror Nation (Wave Books, 2024), the National Book Award-winning collection DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), and Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016). She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan, and Whiting Foundations, as well as the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
