Ook Chung

Ook Chung, born in Japan in 1963, is a Québécois writer. Chung was born to Korean parents in Japan and immigrated to Canada 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

1994: Nouvelles orientales et désorientées, Montreal, L'Hexagone. 2001: Le Clézio, une écriture prophétique, Paris, Imago. 2001: Kimchi, Paris, Le Serpent à plumes. 2003: L'Expérience interdite, Montreal, Boréal. 2003: Contes Butô, Montreal, Boréal. 2012: La Trilogie coréenne, Montreal, Boréal. 2021: La jeune fille de la paix, Montreal.