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#AWP23 Keynote Address by Min Jin Lee

Ballroom 1, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5
Thursday, March 9, 2023
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

 

Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Lee is the recipient of the 2022 Manhae Grand Prize for Literature from South Korea, the 2022 Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the 2022 Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity and fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Lee is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition. Read more about Min Jin Lee.

This event will be livestreamed. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.



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#AWP24

February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center