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| ▲ This photo, a captured image from the Time video, shows Author Cathy Hong Park, a second generation of Korean American family and one of the 100 Most Influential People by the Time. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, Sep. 24 (Yonhap) -- Author Park Hong (45), a second generation of a Korean-American family from LA California America, has been selected as one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 of the Time Magazine.
She was introduced as one of the 7 figures published in the front cover amongst the 100 most influential people.
Hong has put up her name on ‘Icon’ with poet, essayist and tennis star Naomi Osaka, according to the Internet article of the Time Friday.
Author Hong, the eldest daughter of Steve Hong the head of United Fabricare Supply and former president of Yonsei University Alumni Association of USA, graduated Oberlin College and earned an MFA for Creative Writing of University of Iowa.
She is a professor of School of Arts & Sciences-Newark of New Jersey Rutgers University and is a editor for “The New Public”’s poetry division.
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| ▲ This photo, provided by the Time, shows author Cathy Hong Park introduced in the front cover for the 100 Most Influential People by the Time. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
She attracted the readers with books of poems “Translating Mo’um” (2002), “Dance Dance Revolution” (2007) and an autobiographical essay dealing with protests against racial discrimination, “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” (2020).
As hate crimes against Asians are rapidly increasing in America, “Minor Feelings” was nominated for New York Times Best Seller, American Book Award, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 by Time Magazine, National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography division), Pulitzer Prize finalists and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Various medias introduced to the work as the book of the year.
Other Koreans who put their names in 100 Most Influential People of 2021 are actor Steven Yeun (artists category) and actress Youm Yuh-jung (titans category).
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