Shin Kyung-sook

Kyung-sook Shin

Shin in 2012
Born (1963-01-12) 12 January 1963
North Jeolla Province, South Korea
Occupation Novelist
Nationality South Korean
This is a Korean name; the family name is Shin.

Kyung-sook Shin (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea[1]) born 12 January 1963 is a South Korean writer.[2] She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom.[3]

Life

Shin was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province in southern South Korea. She was the fourth child and oldest daughter of six. At sixteen she moved to Seoul, where her older brother lived. She worked in an electronics plant while attending night school.[4] She made her literary debut in 1985 with the novella Winter’s Fable after graduating from the Seoul Institute of the Arts as a creative writing major. Shin is, along with Kim In-suk and Gong Ji-young, one of the group of female writers from the so-called 386 Generation.

She won the Munye Joongang New Author Prize for her novella, Winter Fables.

Shin has won a wide variety of literary prizes including the Today’s Young Artist Award from the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize, Hyundae Literature Award, Manhae Literature Prize, Dong-in Literary Award, Yi Sang Literary Award, and the Oh Young-su Literature Prize. In 2009, the French translation of her work, A Lone Room (La Chambre Solitaire) was one of the winners of the Prix de l'Inapercu, which recognizes excellent literary works which have not yet reached a wide audience.[5] The international rights to the million-copy bestseller Please Look After Mom were sold in 19 countries including the United States and various countries in Europe and Asia, beginning with China [6] and has been translated into English by Kim Chi-young and released on March 31, 2011.[7] She won the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize for Please Look After Mom, she was the first woman to win that award.[8]

Controversy

On June 16, 2015, The Huffington Post Korea reported that Shin plagiarized Yukio Mishima's passage from Patriotism in her book Legend.[9] Shin apologised, and her publisher said it would pull a collection of her short stories off the shelves.[10]

Works

I'll Be Right There (2010)[11]

Please Look After Mom (2009)

Kyung-sook Shin talks about the book on Bookbits radio.

Please Look After Mom is the story of a missing mother and her family, told from the shifting points of view of each of the family members. With this book, Shin reclaimed her place as one of South Korea’s most prominent writers, achieving both critical acclaim and commercial success. The novel tracks down the mother’s life of self-sacrifice, which coincided with South Korea’s dramatic shift from a pre-modern to post-modern society, and in the course has restored a place for motherhood in the South Korean psyche. Foreign rights to Please Look After Mom were sold in 19 countries.

Yi Jin (2007)

Violet (2001)

The Train Departs at Seven (1999)

A Lone Room (1995) Shin was awarded the Manhae Literary Prize for the book in 1996. A Lone Room has been translated and published in France, Germany, Japan and China, and it was translated into English with funding from the American PEN Center. In 2009 the book was awarded the Prix de l’Inapercu in France.

Deep Sorrow (1994) Kyung-sook Shin’s first novel Deep Sorrow is a tale of unrequited love between three childhood friends?Eun-seo, Wan and Se?whose lives continue to intercept as they face new challenges in the unfamiliar terrain of adulthood. As the three friends move on from their utopian rural hometown to the big, brutal cities, their hopes and disappointments collide, bringing them together or sometimes pushing them apart. The rapture of love offers shelter, but never for long, for love cannot be shared equally amongst the three of them.

Works in Translation

Short stories published in France, Japan, Mongolia and the U.S. Publications in English include The Blind Calf, in The Harvard Review, Fall 2002; The Strawberry Field in Azalea, 2008;

Works in Korean (partial)

Novels
Short stories
Non-fiction

Awards

External Links

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Author Database". LTI Korea. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "신경숙" biographical PDF available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do#
  3. ↑ "Shin Kyung-sook the First Korean to Win Man Asian Literary Prize" Chosun Ilbo. 26 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-16
  4. ↑ "Kyung-Sook Shin: 'In my 20s I lived through an era of terrible political events and suspicious deaths'". The Guardian. 2014-06-07. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  5. ↑ KLTI: Kyung-sook Shin Author Brochure
  6. ↑ http://www.ktlit.com/uncategorized/rolling-out-shin-kyung-sooks-take-care-of-my-mother-in-15-languages
  7. ↑ Rao, Mythili G. "A Woman Goes Missing in Seoul" New York Tines. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-16
  8. ↑ "South Korean novelist announced as first woman to win Man Asian Literary Prize", Man Asian Prize website, Mar. 15, 2012.
  9. ↑ 우상의 어둠, 문학의 타락 : 신경숙의 미시마 유키오 표절 [Darkness of idol, corruption of literature: Shin Kyung-sook plagiarized Yukio Mishima] (in Korean). The Huffington Post Korea. June 16, 2015.
  10. ↑ http://www.wsj.com/articles/award-winning-south-korean-author-has-book-withdrawn-over-plagiarism-1435043820
  11. ↑ Kyung-sook Shin: An Introduction Imprima Agency, Seoul
  12. ↑ Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Right-There-Kyung-Sook-Shin/dp/1590516737/ref=la_B004TBRVI0_1_3/180-7717299-4225018?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390831344&sr=1-3
  13. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Please-Look-After-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307739511/ref=la_B004TBRVI0_1_1/180-7717299-4225018?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390831344&sr=1-1

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