Eun Hee-kyung

Eun Hee-kyung
Korean spelling
Hangeul	은희경
Hanja	殷熙耕
Revised Romanization	Eun Hui-gyeong
McCune- Reischauer	Ŭn Hŭigyŏng
See also : Korean name

Eun Hee-kyung , also Un Hikyong, (* 1959 in Koch'ang , South Korea ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Eun Hee-kyung was born in 1959. She grew up in a wealthy family in the provinces and encountered literature at an early age in the form of fairy tales, into the world of which she could completely sink. At the age of 13, she moved to Seoul with her family. In 1977 she began studying Korean literature. She never gave up on the childhood resolution of becoming a writer. In the 80s she worked as a high school teacher, as a lecturer for various publishers or as a publishing consultant. In 1994 she took a leave of absence, took a notebook and retired to a Buddhist monastery to write. There were five short stories and the short novel Das Duett , with which she won a literary prize and finally made her debut as a writer. She lives with her family near Seoul .

Works

• 새 의 선물 ( A Gift from the Bird ) Seoul: Munhakdongne 1995
• 타인 에게 말 걸기 ( Addressing a Stranger ) Seoul: Munhakdongne 1996
• 마지막 춤 은 나와 함께 ( last dance with me ) Seoul: Munhakdongne 1996
• 행복한 사람 은 시계 를 보지 않는다 ( Those who are happy don't look at the clock ) Seoul: Ch'angbi 1999
• 마이너 리그 ( Minor League ) Seoul: Ch'angbi 2001
• 상속 ( The Inheritance ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa 2002
• 비밀 과 거짓말 ( Secret and Lie ) Seoul: Munhakdongne 2005
• 아름다움 이 나를 멸시 한다 ( Beauty spurns me ) Seoul: Ch'angbi 2007
• 그것은 꿈 이었을 까 ( Was that a dream? ) Seoul: Munhakdongnae 2008
• 소년 을 위로 해줘 ( Comfort the Boy ) Seoul: Munhakdongnae 2010
• 생각 의 일요일 들 ( Sunday Thoughts ) Seoul: Valley 2011
• 태연 한 인생 ( A Peaceful Life ) Seoul: Ch'angbi 2012

Translations into German

• Those who are happy do not look at the clock . Edition Delta, Stuttgart 2019 (original title: 행복한 사람 은 시계 를 보지 않는다 , translated by Hyuk-Sook Kim and Manfred Selzer), ISBN 978-3-927648-68-5 .
• The beautiful scorns me; and other stories . EOS Verlag, Sankt Ottilien 2012 (original title: 아름다움 이 나를 멸시 한다, translated by Hyuk-Sook Kim and Manfred Selzer), ISBN 978-3-8306-7566-2 .
• A gift from the bird . Pendragon, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-86532-015-5 (Korean: 새 의 선물 . Translated by Inwon Park, Anja Michaelsen).
• My wife's boxes . Contained in: A very simple dotted dress , published by Heidi Kang and Ahn Sohyun, by Pendragon, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-934872-57-3 .
• Secrets and lies . Ostasien Verlag, Gossenberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-940527-69-1 .

Awards

• 1996 - Prize for prose literature from Munhakdongne publishing house
• 1997: Tongsŏ Literature Prize
• 1998: Yi Sang Literature Prize
• 2000 Korean Novel Literature Prize
• 2002: Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize
• 2006: Yisan Literature Prize
• 2007: Tong-in Literature Prize

literature

• Inwon Park: Paradox of Desire: Love Discourses in German and Korean Prose Texts . Böhlau Verlag , 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20470-9 .

Web links

• Book presentation Beauty spurns me. at: asianmovieweb.com
• Childhood prison on dradio.de
• Si Nae Yang: Eun Heekyungs A Gift from the Bird. on: literaturkritik.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Naver: People: 은희경 , accessed July 29, 2013 (Korean).
2. ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Eun Hee-kyung ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 18, 2013. 
3. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: 은희경 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 27, 2013. 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Eun is the family name here, Hee-kyung is the first name.