Angela Hur

Angela Hur
Hangul 허미영[1]
Revised Romanization Heo Mi-yeong
McCune–Reischauer Hŏ Miyŏng

Angela Mi-Young Hur (born in Los Angeles, California) is a Korean American writer. Since 2010, she has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, where she works as an editor for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.[2] She is currently working on a second novel.

Early life and education

Raised in Gardena, California, Hur graduated from Phillips Academy, an Andover, Massachusetts boarding school, in 1998.[3][4] She remained in Massachusetts to continue her education after high school, enrolling at Harvard University, where she majored in English. While an undergraduate, she became involved in student theater, but realized that she was more drawn to writing than acting during a project with renowned playwrights Ping Chong and Michael Rohd, then in residence at Harvard as Peter Ivers Visiting Artists.[5] In lieu of a senior thesis, she wrote a novel about a woman having her mother's diaries translated from Korean to English, and the love triangle among her, her mother, and the translator. Her major literary influences included Henry James, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Marguerite Duras, and Alfred Hitchcock. She received her bachelor's degree in 2002.[6][7] Later, she entered the Master of Fine Arts program at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she was a recipient of the university's Sparks Fellowship; she graduated in 2005.[8]

Career

After receiving her MFA, Hur spent one year writing what would be her first published novel, The Queens of K-Town, which was published in August 2007 by MacAdam/Cage. Anne Wyman gave The Queens of K-Town a largely favourable review in the San Francisco Chronicle, while Adelle Waldman, writing for the Village Voice, praised Hur's writing as "evocative without being obtrusive" but criticised the novel as a whole for its self-indulgence and lack of coherence.[8][9][10] Others compared The Queens of K-Town to Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides.[1][11] Hur hopes to have The Queens of K-Town published in Korean as well.[3]

Hur lived in Long Beach, California when The Queens of K-Town was published.[3] She later moved to Seoul, South Korea to take up a position as a lecturer of English at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.[3][12][13]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 Bak, Suk-hui, "소설'K타운의 여왕들'출간 (Novel 'The Queens of K-Town' published)", Joongang Ilbo, Atlanta, retrieved 2008-03-14
  2. ↑ "Angela Mi Young Hur", Biographies, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, retrieved 2011-03-22
  3. 1 2 3 4 Choi, Minsoo (2007-09-12), "Korean American Author Angela Hur to Hold Book Signing in Washington D.C.", Dynamic Korea, Washington, D.C.: Embassy of the Republic of Korea, retrieved 2008-03-14
  4. ↑ Niarchos, Zoe (Spring–Summer 2007), Class Notes, Class of 1998, Phillips Academy, retrieved 2008-03-14
  5. ↑ Weisstuch, Liza (2002-02-28), "'Reason' makes its own sense", Harvard University Gazette, President and Fellows of Harvard University, retrieved 2008-03-14
  6. ↑ Kramer, Sarah E. (2001-11-06), "Creative English Theses, Part II", The Harvard Crimson, retrieved 2008-03-14
  7. ↑ Reiter, Keramet A. (2000-03-09), "AAA Hosts Panel on Interracial Dating", The Harvard Crimson, retrieved 2008-03-14
  8. 1 2 Wyman, Anne Julia (2007-08-19), "'Queens of K-Town' are lonely young girls gone wild", The San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved 2008-03-14
  9. ↑ Cart, Michael (2007-08-01), "The Queens of K-Town. (Young adult review)", Booklist, American Library Association, retrieved 2008-03-14
  10. ↑ Waldman, Adelle (2007-08-07), "Self-indulgence in Koreatown: Angela Mi Young Hur's first novel", Village Voice, retrieved 2008-03-14
  11. ↑ Abbott, Charlotte (2007-10-09), "The Queens of K-Town", The Advocate, retrieved 2008-03-14
  12. ↑ Hur, Mi-young (2009-02-26), "Misleading and Dismaying", Korea Times, retrieved 2009-02-27
  13. ↑ Choe, In-seong (2007-09-10), "'한인타운의 여왕들' 집필 2세 소설가 안젤라 허씨; '이중고' 한인여성의 고뇌 (Second-generation novelist Angela Hur, who wrote 'The Queens of K-Town'; Korean women's dual suffering)", Joongang Ilbo, Atlanta, retrieved 2008-04-23
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