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Yi Sang Literary Prize
The Yi Sang Literary Award (이상문학상) is a South Korean literary award. It is one of South Korea's most prestigious literary awards, named after Yi Sang, an innovative writer in modern Korean literature. The Yi Sang Literary Award was established in 1977. It is sponsored by the Korean publisher Munhaksasangsa and has become one of the most prestigious literary awards in South Korea. Winners *1977 김승옥 Kim Seung-ok, 〈서울의 달빛 0장〉 ''The Moonlight of Seoul'' *1978 이청준 Yi Chong-Jun 〈잔인한 도시〉 ''The Cruel City'' *1979 오정희 Oh Jung-hee 〈저녁의 게임〉 ''Evening Game'' *1980 유재용 Yoo Jae-yong 〈관계〉 ''Relationship'' *1981 박완서 Park Wan-suh, 〈엄마의 말뚝〉 ''Mother’s Hitching Post'' *1982 최인호 Choi In-ho, 〈깊고 푸른 밤〉 ''Deep Blue Night'' *1983 서영은 So Yeong-eun, 〈먼 그대〉 ''Distant You'' *1984 이균영 Lee Kyun-young, 〈어두운 기억의 저편〉 ''The Other Side of Dark Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korean Literature
:''See also Culture of South Korea, Korean literature until 1945, and North Korean literature'' South Korean literature is literature written or produced in South Korea following the division of Korea into North and South in 1945. South Korean literature is primarily written in Korean, though English loanwords are prevalent. Literature by genre Mainstream fiction Also referred as 'pure literature' in South Korea. Most authors translated by the Korea Literature Translation Institute for translation falls into this category. The terminology is often criticized, and is a constant theme of discussion in the literature of South Korea. * Ahn Soo-kil (1911-1977)(안수길) *Eun Hee-kyung (1959~)(은희경) * Seong Seok-jae (1961~)(성석제) * Park Mingyu (1968~)(박민규) *Choi Il-nam (1932~)(최일남) * Kim Jae-young (1966~)(김재영) * Bang Young-ung (1942~)(방영웅) *Bok Geo-il (1946~)(복거일) *Cho Se-hui (1942~)(조세희) *Park Beom-shin (1946~)(박범신) *Kim So-jin (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Chae-won (writer)
Kim Chae-won is a South Korean author best known for the dreamlike quality of her prose. Life Kim Chae-won was born in Deokso, Gyeonggi Province in 1946. She studied painting at Ewha Womans University. Her father is the poet Kim Dong-hwan, one of Korea's foremost modernist poets (he wrote Korea's first modern epic, ''Night at the Border''), and her mother is the novelist Choe Jeong-hui. Kim grew up with her older sister under the care of her mother after her father was kidnapped by the North Korean government during the political turmoil after the Korean War. Her older sister Kim Ji-won is also a novelist, and both sisters have received the respected Yi Sang Literary Award. They have collaborated on the short story collections ''Faraway House Faraway Sea'' and ''Home, She Was Not There''. Kim Chae-won's childhood growing up without a father has had a direct and indirect effect on her work. In Kim's novels her father is depicted as a victim of Korea's tragic history. The remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwan Ji-Hye
Kwan may refer to: People * Kwan (surname) (關), a Chinese surname * Kwan Cheatham (born 1995), American basketball player for Ironi Nes Ziona of the Israel Basketball Premier League * nickname of Kwandwane Browne (born 1977), Trinidadian field hockey player * nickname of Suchakree Kwan Poomjang (born 1975), Thai former professional snooker player *Kwan, Canadian music producer, songwriter and engineer Other uses * Kwan, Canadian music producer, songwriter and engineer * Kwan (band), a Finnish hip hop/pop group. * Kwan (martial arts), a Korean term for a school or clan of martial artists. * Mandarin (bureaucrat), bureaucrat scholar in the government of Joseon dynasty. * String of cash coins (currency unit), a superunit of the Korean mun. See also *Guan (other) * Kuang (other) *Kwon *Quan *Quon (other) Quon could refer to * Guan, a Chinese family name rendered in Cantonese as ''Kwan'', or also in English as ''Quan'' or ''Quon'' * Quon Kisaragi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Kyung-sook
Kyung-Sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook (, born 12 January 1963), is a South Korean writer. She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for '' Please Look After Mom''. Life Kyung-Sook 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. 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. Along with Kim Insuk and Gong Ji-young, Kyung-Sook Shin is one of the group of female writers known as the 386 Generation. Career Kyung-Sook Shin won the Munye Joongang New Author Prize for her novella ''Winter Fables''. She has won a wide variety of literary prizes, including the Today’s Young Artist Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee In-hwa
Yi In-hwa (; born January 5, 1966) is a South Korean writer, literary critic and professor."Yi In-hwa (이인화)" at LTI Korea Library or online at: Life Yi was born Lyou Chul-gyun in Daegu in 1966. When young, he was inspired by his father, a professor of Korean Language and Literature at Kyungpook National University, to become a novelist one day. During his high school years, Yi won awards for various national creative writing competitions. However, after entering college, he changed his career path to become a literary critic. There, he made his debut in 1988 with a critical essay called “Study of Yang Guija” (Yang Guija ron) which was published in Literature and Society, a Korean quarterly literary magazine. After this, he was editor for a couple of literary magazines. Several years later, he published his first novel, ''Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am'' (1992), ultimately becoming a novelist. His pen name, Yi In-hwa, is a character from Korean classical novel write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Sang-woo
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. National parks and country parks are green spaces used for recreation in the countryside. State parks and provincial parks are administered by sub-national government states and agencies. Parks may consist of grassy areas, rocks, soil and trees, but may also contain buildings and other artifacts such as monuments, fountains or playground structures. Many parks have fields for playing sports such as baseball and football, and paved areas for games such as basketball. Many parks have trails for walking, biking and other activities. Some parks are built adjacent to bodies of water or watercourses and may comprise a beach or boat dock area. Urban parks often have benches for sitting and may contain picnic tables and barbecue grills. The largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eun Hee-kyung
Eun Heekyung (born in 1959) is a South Korean writer."은, 희, 경" biographical PDF available at: Life Eun was born in Gochang, Jeollabuk-do in 1959. She did her undergraduate degree in literature at Sookmyung Women's University, and her graduate degree in the same field at Yonsei University, both in Seoul. Her childhood was full of fairy tales and children's stories that her parents purchased for her. Eun once stated, "My most important reading was pretty much done during my childhood." Even as a student she always read books (non-schoolbooks), and also recounts reading so intently that she failed to hear that school was ending, and only realizing it when she was surrounded by silence as the other students had left. She also discovered that other students were sometimes reading her diary, and for this reason she began to intersperse into it made up stories or lines aimed at specific readers. Eun's father was a carpenter who employed many workers. Eun noted that when these w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Ji-won (author) ()
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Kim Ji-won () may refer to: *Kim Chi-won (1943–2013), South Korean female novelist * Kim Ji-won (boxer) (born 1959), South Korean male boxer *Kim Ji-won (actress) (born 1992), South Korean actress *Kim Ji-won (badminton) (born 1995), South Korean female badminton player *Kim Ji-won, South Korean male rapper who goes by the stage name Bobby (born 1995) See also *Kim Chi-won (footballer) Kim Chi-won (; born 17 October 1967) is a North Korean former footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yun Dae-nyeong
Yoon Dae-nyeong (born 1962) () is a South Korean writer. Life Yoon Dae-nyeong was born in 1962 in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province. He graduated from Dankook University with a degree in French Language and Literature. He admitted, however, that in his college days he attended more Korean literature classes than French ones. His early boyhood was spent with his grandparents before he joined his parents at the age of eight. Yoon's family was semi-nomadic and he lived in a variety of places, but always in poverty. His habit of reading seems to have been established very early and by the time he attended junior high school, he devoured all the books that he could find around him. Yoon wrote his first story as a senior high school student. During that year he continued writing, and was eager to win the entry prize at spring literary contests. In 1988, while he was a senior, his novel, ''A Circle,'' won the second best award at the spring literary contest sponsored by Daejeon Ilbo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yun Humyong
Yun Hu-myong (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) (born January 17, 1946) is a South Korean writer who has published poetry, novels, and essays."Yun Hu-myong" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Books Yun was born in the city of Gangneung in Gangwon, South Korea, under the name Yun Sang-gyu. He received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Yonsei University. Work Although he is one of the major Korean writers of the 80s, Yun's fiction maintains some distance from the dominant trend in Korean fiction of 1980s—the concern with realism as an effective literary tool in rendering contemporary social situations. Instead, what supports Yun's fictional world are individual desire and the power of fantasy. The archetypal situation in Yun's works is that of a man suffering from a sense of ontological lack; deadened by routines of daily life, he immerses himself in fantasy or travel in order to secure what life in the real world h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choe Yun
Choe Hyeonmu (born 1953), better known by her pen name Choe Yun, is a South Korean writer, translator, and professor of French literature. Life Choe Yun was born in Seoul in 1953. She received her Ph.D. from Sogang University, graduating in 1978 and travelling to France, where she received the ''doctorate de 3ème Cycle de l'Université de Provence D.E.A.'' in Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles. She made her literary debut at the relatively late age of 40, with the publication of the short story collection ''There a Petal Silently Falls''. After her debut, however, Choe was quickly recognized as one of the most important authors in modern South Korea. Choe is married to fellow literary translator Patrick Maurus. Career Choe Yun's writing merges the psychological impact of political/historical events, including the Gwangju Massacre (1980) and the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee (1961–1979), with fictional techniques. Choe's works are varied, but typically founded in particular p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choi Suchol
Choi Suchol is a Korean author. Life Choi Suchol was born on May 13, 1958 in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do. After attending Chuncheon High School, Choi received undergraduate and graduate degrees in French Literature from Seoul National University. His doctoral dissertation was on the writings of Michel Butor. He debuted in 1981 by winning the New Spring Literary Contest sponsored by the Chosun Ilbo with his story “Blindspot” (Maengjeom). He has also taught Creative Writing at Hanshin University."최수철" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Work The point of departure for Choi Suchol's fiction is the claim that genuine communication has become impossible in the print culture of the modern age, and he is known for the abstruse quality of his works. This claim forms the basis of his early work, “Tower in the Air” (Gongjung nugak), which features a protagonist who desires but cannot communicate with the world. “A Meditation on Sounds” (Sorie d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
