Hwang In-suk

Hangeul	황인숙
Hanja	黃仁淑
Revised Romanization	Hwang In-suk
McCune- Reischauer	Hwang Insuk
See also : Korean name

Hwang In-suk (born December 21, 1958 in Seoul ) is a South Korean poet .

Life

Hwang In-suk was born in Seoul in 1958 and studied creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.

Hwang In-suk made her debut in 1984 at a Kyunghyang Ilbo New Year's literary competition , where she won a prize for her poem I'm Born a Cat (나는 고양이 로 태어나 리라). Hwang is very interested in the "stray cats" of society, the lonely and isolated livelihoods of the city. In an interview, she stated that she likes to secretly set up water and food for stray cats in her neighborhood and that she enjoys it when she finds the bowls empty a short time later. In her inner circle of colleagues she is called the “poet with the 4 things that she has and that she does not have”. What she doesn't have is a house, money, husband and children, and what she has is poetry, friends, helpfulness and a selfless, non-material character.

Elements such as poor, lonely existences and comforting words for this, detailed description of surroundings and loneliness are essential contents of Hwang In-suk's poems. She believes loneliness is a kind of disease that can affect anyone. Hope is a way of healing and can always be found somehow. The poet sees hope in the form of a poetic method in the beauty of language.

Working in Korean

Poetry collections

• 새는 하늘 을 자유롭게 풀어 놓고 Birds Free the Skies (1988) ISBN 8932003483
• 슬픔 이 나를 깨운다 Sadness Wakes Me (1990) ISBN 9788932004488
• 우리 는 철새 처럼 만났다 We Met Like Migratory Birds (1994) ISBN 9788932007120
• 나의 침울 한 소중한 이여 My depressive, valuable something (1998) ISBN 9788932010083
• 자명 한 산책 A Walk Of Course (2003) ISBN 9788932014647
• 리스본 행 야간 열차 Night train to Lisbon (2007) ISBN 9788932018294

prose

• 나는 고독 하다 I'm Lonely (1997) ISBN 8982810358
• 육체 는 슬퍼 라 The body is tired (2000) ISBN 8988578155
• 지붕 위 의 사람들 The People on the Roof (2002) ISBN 9788982815386
• 인숙 만필 Notes by Hwang In-suk (2003) ISBN 8989351405
• 이제 다시 그 마음 들을 Now these hearts again (2004) ISBN 8988350375
• 그 골목 이 품고 있는 것들 What's in these streets (2005) ISBN 9788946415188
• 목소리 의 무늬 Sample of Voice (2006) ISBN 9788946415713
• 일일 일락 하루 에 한가지 즐거움 Days of Joy (2007) ISBN 9788960900158
• 해방촌 고양이 Haebangch'on Cat (2010) ISBN 9788994228051
• 도둑 괭이 공주 Princess of the Stray Cats (2011) ISBN 9788954614689
• 우 다다 삼 냥이 Udada Samnyangi (2013) ISBN 9788993824759

Awards

• 1999: 동서 문학상 (Tongsŏ Literature Prize)
• 2004: 김수영 문학상 ( Kim Suyŏng Literature Prize)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 황인숙, accessed March 1, 2014 (Korean).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Author Database of LTI Korea: Hwang In-suk, ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 1, 2014 (English). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hwang is the family name here, In-suk is the first name.