In celebration of Don Mee Choi's recent National Book Award for DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), we wanted to share the following talk:

On OCTOBER 17, 2017 Don Mee Choi gave a lecture based on her keynote address at the 2016 American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference, entitled “Translation is a mode=Translation is an anti-neocolonial mode.” This talk, now available as a pamphlet published by Ugly Duckling Presse, included discussion of Walter Benjamin’s bread, Korean cornbread, warships, Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence, and Kim Hyesoon’s mirrors, among other things. Co-presented by the Hugo House, in Seattle, WA, this event took place at the Sorrento Hotel’s Fireside Room.

DMZ Colony is available here, and at independent bookstores everywhere.