The Winner of
The First Annual Min Chapbook Competition

Harvard University’s Korea Institute and Tamal Vista Publications,
with the support of the Sunshik Min Endowment, are pleased to announce

Hana Kim was awarded the prize for her translation of poems by Cheonhak Kwon in a volume to be called 2H₂ + O₂ = 2H₂O

Hana Kim is a Korea Studies Librarian at the East Asian Library of the University of Toronto, and a translator and interpreter. She graduated in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in Education (German Language and English Language) from the Korea National University of Education. In 2003, she earned a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. Previous to this, in 1998, she also obtained National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia.

Hana has been active translating the poems of her mother, poet Cheonhak Kwon, into English and their work has appeared in a volume entitled The Aphorism of Love. She has also contributed translations and original poems to the yearly anthology journal Variety Crossing, which promotes multiculturalism in Canada.