Pyun Hye-Young

Pyun Hye-Young
Hangeul	편혜영
Revised Romanization	Pyeon Hye-yeong
McCune- Reischauer	P'yŏn Hyeyŏng
See also : Korean name

Pyun Hye-Young (* 1972 in Seoul ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Pyun Hye-Young was born in Seoul in 1972. She studied creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and completed postgraduate studies in Korean language and literature from Hanyang University . She made her debut in 2000 when she won the Seoul Shinmun newspaper's spring literature competition with the short story Knocking Off the Dew ( 이슬 털기 ) . The story is about a woman who was impregnated by her lover and then abandoned. She curses him for it and wishes him death, which ultimately happens. Pyun Hye-Young's first collection of short stories, Aoi Garden, is also filled with bizarre, cruel, threatening and subversive images such as the description of a slashed cat and its innards, the stench of a mountain of rotting garbage or an apartment complex in which an epidemic has broken out. In her second collection in the direction of the enclosure ( 사육장 쪽으로 ) there are less horrific stories that seem like nightmares from real life: a house that lies next to a swamp and is teeming with mice and vermin; a family who has to take their son to hospital after he was bitten by a dog; a man who put on a wolf's skin and is mistaken for a real free-roaming wolf, and a man who lost important documents along with his glasses.

With her special style of grotesque and unsightly images, Pyun Hye-Young creates an irrational world of chaos and confusion and stands out from the usual Korean literature. Critics therefore describe their works as subversive.

Work

Korean

• 아오이 가든 Aoi Garden. 2005, ISBN 89-320-1620-8 .
• 사육장 쪽으로 towards the enclosure. 2007, ISBN 978-89-546-0359-1 .
• 토끼 의 묘 The hare's grave. 2009, ISBN 978-89-90978-81-3 .
• 재 와 빨강 Asche und Ro.t 2010, ISBN 978-89-364-3373-4 .
• 저녁 의 구애 Flirt in the evening. 2011, ISBN 978-89-320-2185-0 .
• 서쪽 숲 에 갔다 To the western forest. 2012, ISBN 978-89-320-2311-3 .
• 밤 이 지나간다 The night goes by. 2013, ISBN 978-89-364-3726-8 .
• 몬순 monsoons. 2014, ISBN 978-89-7012-900-6 .

Translations

English

• O. Cuniculi
• Mallow Gardens , Acta Koreana Vol. 12, No. June 1, 2009

French

• Cendres et Rouge ( 재 와 빨강 ), Editions Philippe Picquier (2012)

Awards

• 2007: 제 40 회 한국 일보 문학상 ( Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize )
• 2007: 제 5 회 자랑 스런 문화 인상 ( award for recognized cultural bearers )
• 2009: 제 10 회 이효석 문학상 ( Lee-Hyo-sŏk Literature Prize )
• 2010: 오늘 의 젊은 예술 가상 문학 부문 ( Prize for young contemporary artists in the field of literature )
• 2011: 제 42 회 동인 문학상 ( Tong-in Literature Prize )
• 2014: 제 38 회 이상 문학상 ( Yi Sang Literature Prize )

Web links

• LIST magazine vol. 22 winter 2013 Interview with Pyun Hye-Young

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 편혜영 ( 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 25, 2014 
2. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 편혜영 Retrieved February 25, 2014 (Korean).
3. ↑ Author Database of LTI Korea: Pyun Hye Young ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF, accessed on February 25, 2014. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Acta Koreana Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2009, pp. 169-199: actakoreana.org. PDF, accessed on February 25, 2014.
5. ↑ wordswithoutborders.org

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Pyun is the family name here, Hye-Young is the first name.