Don Mee Choi, a Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow, is the author of DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her other publications include Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received numerous fellowships and prizes: the 2011 Whiting Award, 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2012 & 2019 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, 2019 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship, 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize, 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, and 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. She was selected as one of the inaugural 2021 Royal Society of Literature International Writers. In addition to her writing, she has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry. She was a 2021 Picador Guest Professor at Leipzig University, and has offered many poetry workshops at universities across the United States.

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Don Mee Choi, “The Poetics of Translation”
Tue, Oct. 22, 4:30 p.m.
East Pyne 010

Samanta Schweblin is the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature winner for her latest story collection, Seven Empty Houses. Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and her novel Little Eyes and story collection A Mouthful of Birds have been longlisted for the same prize. She received in 2022 the famed El Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras Jose Donoso to her artistic trajectory, establishing her as one of the luminaries of contemporary literature. Her books have been translated into over forty languages, and her work has appeared in English in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, Electric Literature, and others. Her forthcoming short story collection Good & Evil and Other Stories (Knopf) will be published in fall 2025. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin.