Oh soo-yeon

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Oh soo-yeon


Oh soo-yeon
Hangeul 오수연
Hanja 吳 受 姸
Revised
Romanization 		O Su-yeon
McCune-
Reischauer 		O Suyn

Oh Soo-yeon (* 1964 in Seoul ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Oh Soo-yeon was born in Seoul in 1964. In 1994 her first novel The National Day of the Dwarf Country was published , which was awarded the prize for young writers of the magazine Moderne Literatur (Hyŏndae munhak). In 1997 the short story The Empty House was published. From 1997, Oh Soo-yeon lived in India for two years and in 2001 published the novel Die Küche , based on experiences from her stay in India , in which she observes and describes people's eating habits. She received the literary prize of the daily newspaper Hankook Ilbo for the story Die Herrlichkeit auf Erden .

In March 2003 she traveled to Iraq as envoy of the "Writers' Conference for National Literature" and at the same time as a member of the Korean-Iraqi anti-war initiative. To report on Palestine, she traveled through Palestine with the activists of the International Solidarity Movement . She wrote a documentary about her experiences during the trip to Iraq, which was published in 2004 under the title Don't Die , Abu-Ali! Iraqi War Diary was published.

Work

Korean

stories

  • 빈집 ( The Empty House ) Seoul: Kang, 1997
  • 부엌 ( The Kitchen ) Seoul: Irŭm, 2001
  • 황금 지붕 ( The Golden Roof ) Seoul: Silch'ŏn munhaksa, 2007

Novels

  • 난장이 나라 의 국경일 ( The National Day of Dwarf Land ) Seoul: Hyŏndae munhak, 1994
  • 아부 알리 죽지 마 - 이라크 전쟁 의 기록 ( Don't die , Abu-Ali! Iraqi War Diary) Seoul: Hyangyŏn, 2004
  • 돌 의 말 ( words made of stone ) Seoul: Munhakdongnae, 2012

Children's books

  • 선물 ( Gift ) Seoul: Myŏngye-ŭi chŏndang, 2002

Awards

  • 2006 - Award for excellent authors
  • 2001 - Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize
  • 1994 - New writer's award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 오수연 ( 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 January 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / klti.libguides.com
  2. ↑ Naver : Oh Soo-yeon , accessed July 9, 2013 (Korean).
  3. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: 오수연 ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2014 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 July 15, 2013 (Korean). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klti.or.kr
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Oh is the family name here, Soo-yeon is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Oh, soo-yeon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 오수연 (Korean, Hangeul); 吳 受 姸 (Korean, Hanja); O, Su-yeon (Revised Romanization); O, Suyŏn (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean author
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul