Jung Mi-Kyung (; 4 February 1960 – 18 January 2017) was a modern

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n novelist.”Jung Mi-Kyung" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do#

Life

Jung Mi-Kyung was born on February 4, 1960, in

Masan Masan is an administrative region of Changwon, a city in the South Gyeongsang Province. It was formerly an independent city from 1949 until 30 June 2010, when it was absorbed to Changwon along with Jinhae. Masan was redistricted as two district ...

South Gyeongsang Province South Gyeongsang Province ( ko, 경상남도, translit=Gyeongsangnam-do, ) is a province in the southeast of South Korea. The provincial capital is at Changwon. It is adjacent to the major metropolitan center and port of Busan. The UNESCO World ...

. Jung graduated from

Ewha Womans University Ewha Womans University () is a private women's university in Seoul founded in 1886 by Mary F. Scranton under Emperor Gojong. It was the first university founded in South Korea. Currently, Ewha is one of the world's largest female educational ins ...

with a degree in English literature and in 1987 made her literary debut by winning the drama category of the JoongAng Literary Award. After this, however, she withdrew from literary work for over a decade, re-entering the scene as a novelist, debuting with the short story "The Woman With Arsenic" in the Fall volume of World Literature. Thereafter, she has concentrated on her literary career with great success.

Work

Korean critic Kim Kyung-Yeon has referred to Jung's work as, "(portraying) a deceptive society full of absurd spectacles, where truth and falseness are intertwined, appearances define nature, and values are destroyed. She shows us the dark side of post-capitalist society through those who struggle to live amidst these absurd spectacles.""Lee Moon-Yol" Biographical PDF, LTI Korea, p. 5. available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do?method=author_detail&AI_NUM=873&user_system=keuser

Selected works

Works in translation

* ''He Gave Me Roses of the Balkans'' (translated by Stella Kim) * ''My Son's Girlfriend'' (translated by Yu Young-nan)

Works in Korean

Short stories

* "Heavy Snow" () * "The Woman with Arsenic" (, 2001) * "Divide, the Night" (, 2006)

Novels

* ''La Vie en Rose'' (, 2002) * ''The Strange Sorrow of Wonderland'' (, 2005) * ''Stars of Africa'' (, 2010)

Short story collections

* ''Bloodstained Lover'' (, 2004) * ''They Gave Me Balkan Roses'' (, 2006) * ''My Son's Girlfriend'' (, 2008) * ''French Laundry'' (, 2013)

Awards

Yi Sang Literature Award 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 estab ...

(2006) - for "Divide, the Night" () * Today's Artist Award (2002)

References

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