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Jinwoo Park

Jinwoo Park (he/him) is a Korean-Canadian writer based in Montreal. Born and raised in Seoul, he has lived in various parts of North America and the UK since the age of 11. He obtained his master’s in creative writing at the University of Oxford in 2015. In 2021 he won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers’ Award from the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop. He has also been actively working as a literary translator after winning the Emerging Translator Award from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea in late 2023. Oxford Soju Club, published by Dundurn Press, is his first novel.

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Translation as Resistance

Ryad Assani-Razaki |

Leilei 莫译 Chen |

Jinwoo Park

April 28, 2026
7:30PM - 8:30PM ET

Meaning can be lost in translation — but it can also be strengthened. In this virtual panel discussion, translators Ryad Assani-Razaki, Jinwoo…

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