Representing Culture in Words

Pohang, South Korea 

Bora is the author of Cursed Bunny and Your Utopia. Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022. Bora likes dark,  magical tales and stories about strong women battling to survive in an unjust, violent world. 

Appearing in: Session 10, Session 13 

Seoul, South Korea 

Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and No One Told Me Not To. As a translator, he was double longlisted and shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. Anton resides in Seoul. 

Appearing in: Session 10, Session 16, Opening Night Gala 

Wangal Country, Sydney, Australia 

Jessie Tu is a book critic at The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and a journalist for Women’s Agenda. Her debut novel, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, won the ABIA for 2020 Literary Fiction Book of the Year. The Honeyeater is her second novel. 

Appearing in: Session 10, Session 13 

Boonwurrung Country, Melbourne, Australia

Mridula researches and teaches multicultural and postcolonial literatures, with an emphasis on diasporic writings of South Asia around the world (including in Asia, Africa and the Americas), Asian literatures in translation, and culinary cultures.

Appearing in: Session 4, Session 10, Session 13