Hwang, Yuwon

Hwang Yuwon, born in Ulsan, South Korea, in 1982, is a poet and translator. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently “초자연적 3D 프린팅“ (Munhakdongne Publishing 2022, Eng.: Supernatural 3D Printing) and “하얀 사슴 연못“ (Changbi Publishers 2023, Eng.: White Deer Lake). A selection was published in “Poems of Hwang Yuwon, Ha Jaeyoun & Seo Dae-kyung” (Vagabond Press 2019, translated by Jake Levine). Hwang translates poetry and novels from English to Korean, including works by Bob Dylan, Anne Carson and Herman Melville. He has received many awards for his poetry, including the Kim Soo Young Award and the Kim Hyun Literature Prize.

Festival Content

WELTKLANG

Night of Poetry

Betonhalle | 15/10 € Anthology included Tickets

This summer, we are celebrating a night of poetry for the 25th time in Berlin. According to the annals of the capital’s media, the first edition on Potsdamer Platz in 2000 coincided with the sudden onset of a summer cold spell. It was way too dark to read into the anthology, and yet an enthusiastic audience held out until two in the morning.

Opposed to that night’s mythological inception at the turn of the millennium, there are not only warm rooms at Weltklang, but also reading lamps. Since 2023, German and English translations of all the poems read have been published in an anthology that is traditionally limited to people in attendance.

The eight poets from different parts of the world who are taking the stage this evening will read and perform in their original languages, showcasing the intensities that poetry can generate not only in silent reading but also in the spoken word, in the concentration of a poetic voice.

Brassinga, Anneke • Chingonyi, Kayo • CAConrad • Ekhtesari, Fatemeh • Hwang, Yuwon • Kandé, Sylvie • Kiyanovska, Marianna • Vlada, Miruna

POETRY TALK: Hwang Yuwon & Kim Hyun

Leaves for two people

Atelierraum | 7/5 € Tickets

The discovery of two exciting voices from Korea await visitors to this event. Two poets who defy simple interpretation in their writing and dive into the most beautiful and inscrutable confusion.

Hwang, Yuwon • Kim, Hyun