{"id":82597,"date":"2014-12-02T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=82597"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:14:07","slug":"acclaimed-for-the-distilled-beauty-of-his-prose-paul-yoon-to-read-at-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/02\/acclaimed-for-the-distilled-beauty-of-his-prose-paul-yoon-to-read-at-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Praised for the distilled beauty of his prose, Paul Yoon to read at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Yoon, novelist. (Peter Yoon)<\/p><\/div>\n

Author of the acclaimed story collection Once the Shore<\/em> and the novel Snow Hunters<\/em>, for which he received the New York Public Library\u2019s Young Lions Fiction Award, Paul Yoon reads at Bates at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by Language Arts Live, the reading is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6326.<\/p>\n

Once the Shore<\/em>, Yoon’s first book, was selected as a New York Times<\/em> Notable Book and a Best Debut of the Year by National Public Radio. It also won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and a 5 under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation.<\/p>\n

2013’s Snow Hunters<\/em> is \u201ca subtle, elegant, poignant read\u201d (Oprah.com) depicting a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor\u2019s apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past.<\/p>\n

Yoon’s minimalism, writes National Public Radio reviewer Alana Levinson, becomes the “driving, masterful force” in Snow Hunters<\/em>. “Every word is purposeful, and there is an air of meditation in Yoon’s modest sentences. While the first draft was over 500 pages, the final is a mere 208: it’s evident that only the best, most important, prose remained.”<\/p>\n

Yoon was born in New York City. He lives in Massachusetts and is the Roger F. Murray Chair in Creative Writing at Phillips Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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