Walter Byongsok Chon (Theatre) is Awarded the Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship

By Walter Byongsok Chon, September 17, 2023

Walter Byongsok Chon, Associate Professor of Dramaturgy in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, is awarded a fellowship by the Bogliasco Foundation.

He will spend four weeks at the Foundation in Bogliasco, Italy, in the spring and will translate a collection of plays by Korean playwright Myung-Wha Kim from Korean into English. Dramaturg Anne Hamilton, a fellow Fellowship Awardee, will collaborate with him as the English language consultant on this joint project. 

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For this project, they were also awarded the 2022 Daesan Foundation Grant for the Translation of Korean Literary Works.