K-Horror Literature Week

Cursed Bunny at New York Public Library: 

Bora Chung and Anton Hur in Conversation with Frances Cha 

Date: November 3rd, 2023 @ 6 pm 

Location: 53rd Street Library (18 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019)

Korean Cultural Center NY and 53rd Street Library invite you to the mysterious world of Cursed Bunny with two brilliant minds: author Bora Chung and translator Anton Hur. Published in the US for the first time, Cursed Bunny  is a Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature. The Winners will be announced live on November 15, 2023. The book was also shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and won a PEN/HEIM translation grant. 

This event will be moderated by Frances Cha, critically acclaimed author of If I Had Your Face. 

Join us as they explore Bora and Anton’s writing processes along with their favorite Korean horror tales when they examine various themes with Cursed Bunny. 

Following the engaging discussion, you will have the opportunity to meet Bora Chung and Anton Hur in person along with the option to have your copy of Cursed Bunny signed. The event will be registration-based, as it is scheduled to take place after the library closes. The program will be conducted in English. 

About the Book 

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung and translated by the renowned Anton Hur. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.

About the Speakers

Bora Chung has written three novels and three collections of short stories. She has an MA in Russian and East European area studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic Literature from Indiana University.  

Anton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won an English PEN Translates award for Kang Kyeong-ae's The Underground Village, and his translation of Sang Young Park’s Love in the Big City was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. He lives in Seoul. 

Frances Cha is the author of the novel If I Had Your Face, which was named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time Magazine, NPR, BBC and Esquire among other publications and is being translated into 11 languages. She teaches fiction at the Columbia University MFA program and lives in New York with her family. Recently, she published a children's book The Goblin Twins, a captivating tale of ancient dokkaebi’s journey from Korea to modern New York.