DMZ World Literature Festa to discuss peace with Nobel winner Alexievich

Against the backdrop of barbed wire and guard posts of the inter-Korean border, writers from around the world, including Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, will gather to ask what literature can do in an age of war, division and democratic backsliding this weekend. Titled “From the Land of Silence with the Language of Life,” the event will run from Friday to Sunday at Camp Greaves inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju’s Book City, featuring 150 authors, including Alexievich, Korean literary heavyweight Hwang Sok-yong and writers from conflict zones and migrant communities around the world. Co-hosted by Gyeonggi Province, the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation and the Writers Association of Korea, the three-day event and its companion book fair “In Between” aim to spotlight literature’s role in promoting peace, coexistence and human dignity. On Friday, Alexievich, best known in Korea for “The Unwomanly Face of War,” will deliver a keynote speech on the 2020 Belarus protests and speech as resistance under authoritarian rule. Hwang, who recently retur

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