Kim Insuk

Kim Insuk
Hangeul	김인숙
Hanja	金仁淑
Revised Romanization	Gim In-suk
McCune- Reischauer	Kim In-suk
See also : Korean name

Kim Insuk

Kim Insuk (born January 1, 1963 in Seoul ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Kim Insuk was born on January 1, 1963 in Seoul . Since her first publication Season of Losses (상실 의 계절) at the age of twenty, Kim has gone through several phases of development as a writer. A desire for freedom and purity accompanied by an aversion to principles characterized her early works.

Although this early work is viewed as sensitive and thoughtful, it met with little response in the political and moral climate of the turbulent 1980s. Far from wanting to teach through her works, the young author received severe criticism for having removed herself from the worst needs of the general public and ignored the cause of the workers' and democratic movement.

In the late 1980s she began to publish a series of works that demonstrated a clear change in her choice of topics, ranging from individual freedom and personal desires to social problems and reforms. This change in Kim's literary focus, however, is not a reluctant response to external criticism, nor is it a passive acceptance of literary fashion; rather, it shows the efforts of an author who is constantly concerned with self-reflection, transformation and renewal.

In the late 1990s, her work underwent another metamorphosis. The central characters are no longer on the battlefield of life, instead they are now self-recognized nobody without role models or hopes, who crowd into the shadows in the background of society and lead a meaningless and quiet life.

Looking for new ideas, Kim lived in Dalian , China, from 2002 to 2004 .

Work

Korean

Novels

• 핏줄 bloodline (1983)
• 79-80 겨울 에서 봄 사이 1-3 79-80 between winter and spring (1987)
• 그래서 너를 안는다 That's why I hug you (1994)
• 먼길 Long Way (1995)
• 꽃 의 기억 The memories of flowers (1999)
• 바다 와 나비 Sea and butterfly
• 그 여자 의 자서전 Your Biography (2005)
• 안녕 엘레나 Goodbye Elena (2009)
• 소현 Sohyŏn (2010)
• 미칠 수 있겠 니 Can you go crazy? (2011)

Short stories

• 칼날 과 사랑 Sword and Love (1993)
• 유리 구두 Glass Shoes (1998)
• 브라스 밴드 를 기다리며 Waiting for the marching band (2001)

Translations

English

• The long road: a novel (먼길), MerwinAsia (2010) ISBN 978-1878282972

Awards

• 1995: 한국 일보 문학상 ( Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize )
• 2000: 현대 문학상 ( Prize for Contemporary Literature )
• 2003: 이상 문학상 ( Yi Sang Literature Prize )
• 2005: 이수 문학상 ( Isu Literature Prize )
• 2006: 대산 문학상 ( Taesan Literature Prize )
• 2010: 동인 문학상 ( Tongin Literature Prize )
• 2012: 황순원 문학상 ( Hwang Sun-won Literature Prize )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 김인숙 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 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 February 27, 2014 (English) 
2. ↑ 한국 현대 문학 대사전 [네이버 지식 백과]: 김인숙 [金仁淑 ] Retrieved February 27, 2014 (Korean)
3. ↑ Author Database of LTI Korea: Kim In Sook ( 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 February 27, 2014 (English) 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Insuk is the first name.