Ook Chung

Ook Chung, born in Japan in 1963, is a Québécois writer.^[1][2] Chung was born to Korean parents in Japan and immigrated to Canada^[3] at the age of 2. He studied French literature at McGill and Concordia universities before obtaining his doctorate at McGill.

Awards

• 2002: John Glassco Prize (translation into French of Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field)
• 2002: Prix littéraire Canada-Japon (Kimchi)
• 2000: Prix littéraire Canada-Japon (Proposed but never realized Testament de Tokyo)

Works

One of the illustrations in La jeune fille de la paix is this image of the Peace Statue in Berlin

• 1994: Nouvelles orientales et désorientées, Montreal, L'Hexagone. (ISBN 2890065146)
• 2001: Le Clézio, une écriture prophétique, Paris, Imago. (ISBN 2911416481)
• 2001: Kimchi, Paris, Le Serpent à plumes. (ISBN 2842612620)
• 2003: L'Expérience interdite, Montreal, Boréal. (ISBN 2764602391)
• 2003: Contes Butô, Montreal, Boréal. (ISBN 2764602529)
• 2012: La Trilogie coréenne, Montreal, Boréal. (ISBN 9782764621073)
• 2021: La jeune fille de la paix, Montreal. (ISBN 9782896498659)