Eun Meehee

This is a Korean name; the family name is Eun.

Meehee Eun (Eun Mihee)
Meehee Eun in 2008; photograph by Samuel Sangwon Lee.
Born	(1960-09-20) 20 September 1960 Mokpo, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, college lecturer, columnist
Nationality	South Korea
Alma mater	Gwangju University
Notable works	People in Columbarium Minority's Love Song of the Wind Ten thousand and two brewing Women The First Experience at 18
Spouse	Single

Korean name
Hangul	은미희
Hanja	殷美姬
Revised Romanization	Eun Meehee
McCune–Reischauer	Eun Mee Hee

Meehee Eun (Eun Mihee, Korean: 은미희, 殷美姬; born 20 September 1960) is a Korean novelist, writer, columnist and college lecturer.^[1] She was born in the Mokpo Jeollanam-do province and grew up in Gwangju-city. She was a radio actress in the Gwangju Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation in her early 20s. She was a journalist for the Jeonnam Maeil newspaper. She was awarded the 1996 Jeonnam Ilbo Literature Award for a short novel What Kind of Silkworm's Dream in Cocoon and the 1999 Munhwa Ilbo Literature Award for another short novel Bird Fly Again. She got awarded the 2001 Samsung Literature Award for People in Columbarium, which is a story of poor people's lives at an inn in a local small town. In 2002, she published Minority's Love, which is a story of the love between people and a near relative of the same sex. The novel Song of the Wind in 2005 is a story of a wandering life of a candy selling group. A book of several short stories, Ten thousand and two brewing Women, in 2006 provided stories of a variety of a group of lives. She has published other novels such as The First Experience at 18, Wind Male Tree Woman, Chosun Genius Painter Seungeop Jang, Goddess of Creation and Destruction of Camille Claudel and etc.^[2]

Life

Meehee Eun was born in Mokpo-city, Jeollanam-do province. Her parents are Saeryeon Eun (1927~1996) and Geumhyang Kim (1932~). She has an older brother, two older sisters and a younger sister. Her father was a painting teacher in high school who has had three individual exhibitions and several group exhibitions as a member of Hwangto-group. Meehee had a talent for painting as well, but her father did not want her to become a painter. She started to develop her writing skill when she was a high school student. She graduated high school in 1979. She dropped out of Seoyeong University due to a personal family reason. Her oldest sister attended a graduate school and her older sister attended a painting college. In May 1980, during the people's uprising movement, she felt a lot of sad feelings, which contributed to her literary tone.

Her novelist life came a little late compared with those of her writer peers. During that time, she had a hard time due to her siblings: her oldest sister was a Korean teacher in a middle school, her second oldest sister taught painting to students in her private painting school, and her older brother was an unsuccessful businessman. In 2003, she graduated Gwangju University. In 2010, she got a master's degree from Gwangju University. In 2016, she started a Ph.D. program in Korean teaching at Dongshin University. In 2001, she was awarded the Samsung Literature Award for People in Columbarium.^[3] She taught creative writing to students at Saengoji University^[4] and screenwriting to students in the department of Broadcasting Entertainment at Dongshin University.

Written works

1996, Short story What Kind of Silkworm's Dream in Cocoon: 누에는 고치 속에서 무슨 꿈을 꾸는가Jeonnam Ilbo Literature Award^[5]
1999, Short story Bird Fly Again: 다시 나는 새 Munwha Ilbo Literature Award^[6]
2001, Novel People in Columbarium: 비둘기집사람들^[7]
2002, Novel Minority's Love: 소수의 사랑^[8]
2005, Novel Song of the Wind: 바람의 노래,^[9]^[10]
2005, Biography Chosun Genius painter Seungeop Jang: 조선의 천재 화가 장승업
2006, Short story book Ten thousand and two brewing Women: 만두 빚는 여자,^[11]^[12]
2006, Collaborated Audio book: Snack
2006, Novel The First Experience at 18: 18세, 첫경험,^[13]^[14]
2006, Short story I lost myself(Munjang Webzine January 2007)^[15]
2007, Novel Wind male tree woman: 바람남자 나무여자,^[16]^[17]
2007, Biography Goddess of Creation and Destruction of Camille Claudel: 창조와 파괴의 여신 카미유 클로델^[18]
2008, Short story A landscape with a Blue Mold(Writer open tomorrow 52, winter)
2008, Collaborated 2 and 1/2^[19]
2008, Picture book Shimchung Fell in Indangsu^[20]
2009, Novel Butterfly, Butterfly^[21]
2010, Picture book Introducing my Friend Butterfly
2010, Collaborated Thank you, Family
2010, Collaborated Class: All This Makes the Lost Memories
2011, Novel Black Skirt Sadako (Jeongja Bae),^[22]^[23]
2012, Collaborated Giddy Chatters of Eves^[24]
2012, Biography Pope John Paul II – The Light of the Human Race^[25]

Broadcasting works

Narration: SBS 5.18 28 Anniversary Special 2-part series – <Destiny - 80518>(18 May 2008),^[26]^[27]^[28]^[29]
Guest: SBS Field report- people world 230 – <Gwangju Diary of the Yellow Rose> (18 May 2005)^[30]

Column works

Live and think (2 January 2015 ~ 26 June 2015), column in Munwha Ilbo^[31]
Blue square (30 June 2006 ~ 7 June 2012), column in Munwha Ilbo^[32]
Meehee Eun's go out (2009 ~ 2011), column in Koomin Ilbo
Front Essay in Lady Kyunghyang June 2009^[33]
Columnist in Jeonnam Ilbo
Meehee Eun's Gwangju Walk, column in Gwangju Sibo

Awarded

1995, Korea Women's Literature Award
1996, Gwangnam Literature Award^[34]
2001, Samsung Literature Award^[35]

References

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