Season 11: Episode 8 | June Hur | Faith and a Best-Selling Author

Scripture Untangled

Listen to June Hur, best-selling and award-winning author, being interviewed by Joanna la Fleur. In this episode, June talks about her passion for literature, and how discovering forgotten Korean history would form a foundation for writing best-selling YA Korean historicals. June also reveals how her Christian faith has shaped her storytelling and how Scripture has guided her path as a writer.

In this episode, June and Joanna discuss:

• How June Hur blends Korean history with mystery fiction to create immersive young adult novels.
• June’s writing being rejected over a 100 times, and how she found her true writer’s voice.
• Writing strong women into Korean history, and how June gives voice to brave women who were overlooked in the past.
• What it felt like when June won the prestigious Edgar Award, and her work was recognized on the world stage.
• Why June decided to be open about her Christian faith as an author.
• Writing about brave characters and how it inspires June to live more courageously herself.
• From the Bible to C.S. Lewis and Tim Keller, and how Christian thinkers and writers quietly shaped June’s worldview.

Read the transcript: biblesociety.ca/transcript-scripture-untangled-s11-ep8

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June Hur (허주은) is a New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author of YA Korean historicals. Born in South Korea, June spent her formative years in the USA, Canada, and South Korea before studying History and Literature at the University of Toronto and working at the city’s public library.

Her work has been featured in Forbes, NPR, The New York Times, CBC, Vogue Korea, and KBS.

She resides in Toronto with her family.

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