Breaking Through: The Debut Novel

Alan Murrin is an Irish fiction author currently residing in Berlin. In 2021, he won the Bournemouth Writing Prize for his short story The Wake, which was later shortlisted for Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. His work has also been shortlisted for the Irish Arts and Writers Festival Short Story Prize and the New Irish Writing in Germany Prize, and he was longlisted for the 2021 University of Essex International Short Story Prize. Murrin contributes to publications such as The Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Spectator. His essays on art and photography have been featured in Art Review and The White Review.

Alan Murrin adalah penulis fiksi asal Irlandia yang saat ini tinggal di Berlin. Pada tahun 2021, ia memenangkan Bournemouth Writing Prize untuk cerita pendeknya The Wake, yang kemudian masuk dalam daftar pendek Short Story of the Year di Irish Book Awards. Karyanya juga telah masuk dalam daftar pendek Irish Arts and Writers Festival Short Story Prize dan New Irish Writing in Germany Prize, serta masuk dalam daftar panjang University of Essex International Short Story Prize 2021. Murrin berkontribusi pada publikasi seperti The Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement, dan The Spectator. Esainya tentang seni dan fotografi telah dipublikasikan di Art Review dan The White Review.

Anton Hur is a South Korean translator and a winner of the PEN/Heim Award for his translation of The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae and Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. Hur has also translated Kyung-Sook Shin’s The Court Dancer and I Went to See My Father, Djuna’s Counterweight, and Baek Sehee’s I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki. As a writer, Hur is represented by Jon Wood at Rogers Coleridge & White in London and has been published in Words Without Borders, Asymptote Journal, Litro Magazine, among other publications. Born in Stockholm, Hur currently resides in Seoul, where he studied law and psychology at Korea University. He specialized in Victorian poetry at the Seoul National University Graduate School English program under Dr. Nancy Jiwon Cho. Hur has also taught at the British Centre for Literary Translation, the Ewha University Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, and the Bread Loaf Translators Conference.

Supported by Literature Translation Institute of Korea. 

Anton Hur adalah seorang penerjemah asal Korea Selatan dan pemenang Penghargaan PEN/Heim untuk terjemahannya dari buku The Underground Village karya Kang Kyeong-ae dan Cursed Bunny karya Bora Chung, yang terpilih sebagai salah satu nominasi pendek untuk International Booker Prize 2022. Karya-karya lain yang pernah ia terjemahkan di antaranya The Court Dancer dan I Went to See My Father karya Kyung-Sook Shin, Counterweight karya Djuna, dan I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki karya Baek Sehee. Sebagai seorang penulis, Hur diwakili oleh Jon Wood di Rogers Coleridge & White di London dan karya-karyanya telah diterbitkan di Words Without Borders, Asymptote Journal, Litro Magazine, dan publikasi lainnya. Lahir di Stockholm, Hur saat ini tinggal di Seoul, tempat di mana ia menempuh studi hukum dan psikologi di Universitas Korea. Ia memiliki spesialisasi pada puisi Victorian di Seoul National University Graduate School di bawah Dr. Nancy Jiwon Cho. Selain itu, ia juga mengajar di British Centre for Literary Translation, Ewha University Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, dan Bread Loaf Translators Conference.

Didukung oleh Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

Aube Rey Lescure is a French-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel, River East, River West, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins (US) and Duckworth Books (UK) in January 2024 and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024. Her essay At the Bend of the Road was selected for Best American Essays 2022. An excerpt from her forthcoming novel was a semifinalist in the Boston Review’s 2020 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest, and her short fiction was a finalist for BOMB Magazine’s 2021 Fiction Contest, judged by Ottessa Moshfegh. Aube grew up between Provence, northern China, and Shanghai, and graduated from Yale University in 2015. She worked in foreign policy before becoming an itinerant writer. Currently, she works as the Deputy Editor at Off Assignment.

Aube Rey Lescure adalah seorang penulis keturunan Prancis-China-Amerika. Novel debutnya, River East, River West, diterbitkan oleh William Morrow/HarperCollins (AS) dan Duckworth Books (UK) pada Januari 2024 dan masuk dalam daftar pendek Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024. Esainya yang berjudul At the Bend of the Road terpilih sebagai Best American Essays 2022. Cuplikan dari novelnya yang akan segera terbit juga menjadi semifinalis dalam Aura Estrada Short Story Contest tahun 2020 di Boston Review. Tak tertinggal, cerita pendek yang ia tulis menjadi finalis dalam Fiction Contest 2021 oleh Majalah BOMB, dengan Ottessa Moshfegh sebagai juri. Aube dibesarkan di Provence, utara China, dan Shanghai, dan lulus dari Yale University pada tahun 2015. Ia bekerja di bidang kebijakan luar negeri sebelum menjadi seorang penulis. Saat ini, ia bekerja sebagai Deputi Editor di Off Assignment.

Goebahan R. is a young Indonesian writer from Aceh who grew up in North Sumatra and was selected as one of the Emerging Writers at the 2024 Festival. She currently resides in Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands. Her novella Rumah yang Sama, Pulang yang Beda was included in Sepotong Kisah Di Balik 98: Cerita Pilihan Okky Madasari, an anthology curated by an Indonesian renowned writer, Okky Madasari, which was published in 2024 by Falcon Publishing. Her solo novel titled Percakapan Mereka yang Belum Usai will soon be released by the same publisher.

Goebahan R. adalah seorang penulis muda Indonesia dari Aceh yang dibesarkan di Sumatera Utara, yang terpilih dalam program Emerging Writers Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2024. Saat ini ia berdomisili di Tanjungpinang, Kepulauan Riau. Novelanya yang berjudul Rumah yang Sama, Pulang yang Beda tergabung dalam antologi Sepotong Kisah Di Balik 98: Cerita Pilihan Okky Madasari yang diterbitkan pada tahun 2024 oleh Falcon Publishing. Novel solonya yang berjudul Percakapan Mereka yang Belum Usai akan segera dirilis oleh penerbit yang sama.