PAST EVENT
Krause Essay Prize Ceremony Honoring Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Speaking engagement
Thursday, October 29, 2020 to Thursday, October 29, 2020
08:00pm
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was born in Goheung in Jeolla Province. She has cartooned the graphic novels Grass, The Waiting, La saison des pluies, Jiseul, Jun, The Naked Tree, and Alexandra Kim, a Woman of Siberia; the autobiographical comic The Song of My Father; the three-volume children’s comic Coquinette; the picture books The Baby Hanyeo Okrang Goes to Dokdo and A Day with My Grandpa; and the children’s book My Mother Kang Geumsun. Grass (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019) appeared on Best of the Year lists from the New York Times and the Guardian, and received the Cartoonist Studio Prize for the Best Print Comic of the Year, the Big Other Book Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2019, the Harvey Award for Best International Book, and the Krause Essay Prize in 2020.
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Dog Days receives a starred review in Booklist!
Gendry-Kim’s fourth extraordinary title arrives, once again translated by notable Korean Canadian Hong, this time tugg...
December 4, 2023
Library Journal’s Best Graphic Novels of 2023 list includes two D+Q titles!
The Naked Tree illustrated by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, written by Park Wan-suh, and translated by Janet Hong. In 1951 Seoul...
December 30, 2022
The Waiting reviewed in Asia Media International
BRIANNA HIRAMI WRITES — Historians often skip over the pain that war leaves on the countless hearts of those who have ...
July 13, 2022
Birmingham Public Library reviews Grass
As of July 2, 2021, only 14 out of the 240 registered Korean survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery are stil...
June 7, 2022
Three D+Q titles featured in Book Riot’s roundup of books from around the world!
I love graphic novels. Not only are they entertaining, but they’re also a wonderful way to learn about history — or...
May 7, 2022
The Waiting featured by The Straits Times
On Mother’s Day, The Sunday Times looks at 10 recent books that explore the complexities of motherhood in new ways...
April 22, 2022
Five D+Q Korean graphic novels featured in Book Riot’s Roundup
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon the Koreadathon, a readathon put together by two BookTubers: monica kim and books with c...
December 24, 2021
Publishers Weekly’s Stargazing Special on The Waiting
On our end of the year Stargazing segment, PW graphic novels review editor Meg Lemke and Calvin discuss The Waiting by ...
D+Q’s 2021 Fiction Round-Up Pt. 2
Immerse yourself in even more of our 2021 fiction, starting with Secret Life by Theo Ellsworth and Jeff VanderMeer, This Is…
The Naked Tree by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
D+Q has acquired World English rights to The Naked Tree, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s comic adaptation of the beloved Korean novel by Park Wan-seo. We’re…
2021 Press Round-Up!
As we close out 2021 we wanted to look back on some of the amazing writing about comics that was published…