Kang Eun-gyo

Korean spelling
Hangeul	강은교
Hanja	姜 恩喬
Revised Romanization	Gang Eun-gyo
McCune- Reischauer	Kang Ŭn'gyo
See also : Korean name

Kang Eun-gyo (born December 13, 1945 in Hongwŏn , Hamgyŏng-namdo ) is a South Korean writer .

life and work

Kang Eun-gyo was born in Hongwŏn in Hamgyŏng-namdo in 1945. She grew up in Seoul , attended Kyŏnggi Girls 'Middle School and Kyŏnggi Girls' High School. She received her Bachelor in English Literature as well as her Ph.D. in Korean Literature from Yonsei University . She made her literary debut with the publication of the work Night of the Pilgrims (순례자 의 밤), for which she received the New Writer Prize of Sasanggye Magazine in 1968. She is currently a professor of Korean literature at Dong-a University .

She writes books that are critical of society and government and campaigns for human rights and against the oppression of the individual by state power. Kang Eun-gyo received six Korean literary prizes between 1968 and 2011.

Works (selection)

• 허무 집 House of Nothing (1971)
• 풀잎 Grass leaves , Mieumsa (1974)
• 그물 사이로 Between the Water (1975)
• 도시 의 아이들 City Children (1977)
• 빈자 일기 Diary of a beggar (1977)
• 우리 가 물 이 되어 만난 다면 When We Turn To Water And Meet (1980)
• 소리 집 House of Sounds , Ch'angjak-kwa pip'yŏngsa (1982)
• 붉은 강 Red River , P'ulbit (1984)
• 우리 가 물 이 되어 When We Turn To Water (1986)
• 바람 노래 Song of the Wind (1987)
• 오늘도 너를 기다린다 Even today I am waiting for you , Silch'ŏn munhaksa (1989)
• 벽속 의 편지 The letter in the wall , Ch'angjak-kwa pip'yŏngsa (1992)
• 어느 별 에서 의 하루 The Day on a Star , Ch'angbi (1996)
• 초록 거미 의 사랑 The love of the green spider , Ch'angbi (2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 강은교 Retrieved January 27, 2014 (Korean)

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