Capitalists Must Starve with Park Seolyeon & Anton Hur | 25th Oct @ 7pm

This autumn, Tilted Axis are bringing Capitalists Must Starve, a radical feminist novel by award-winning Korean author Park Seolyeon and translated by Anton Hur, on a North–South UK tour and we're delighted to be hosting their Glasgow event.

Centred on a young woman who led a historic factory strike in 1930s Pyongyang, the novel powerfully reclaims women’s role in the labour movement. As they tour cities like Glasgow, Newcastle, Sheffield, and Edinburgh, they're connecting the story of Korean resistance with the UK’s own legacy of women-led industrial action—from textile workers to miners’ wives. With Park and Anton touring together for the first time, this is a rare opportunity to bridge cultures, honour working-class women’s histories, and celebrate international literature in translation.

Set against the backdrop of Japanese-occupied Korea, Capitalists Must Starve follows a sharp-tongued, big-hearted heroine who dares to love, rebel, and carve out space for working-class women in a world determined to silence them. Echoing the unflinching narratives of Alias Grace and the sweeping historical vision of Pachinko, this feminist historical novel balances raw grit with unexpected tenderness and a defiant streak of dark humour.

A stirring portrait of resistance from below: fierce, funny, and full of fight.

Park Seolyeon made her debut winning the Silcheon Munhak New Writers Prize in 2015 for her short story “Mickey Mouse Club.” Her books include the novels The Job of Marta, The Shirley Club, A Magical Girl Retires, Project V and Capitalists Must Starve, which won the 2018 Hankyoreh Literature Prize, as well as the story collections My Hormones Made Me Do It, Your Mom’s the Better Player, and Me, Me, Madeline.

Anton Hur was born in Stockholm. He is the author of Toward Eternity and has been nominated for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Dublin Literary Award for his various translations including Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park and A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon. He lives in Seoul.

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Event Ticket & Copy of Capitalists Must Starve

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