Sin Kyong-suk

Sin Kyong-suk (2012)
Sin Kyong-suk
Hangeul	신경숙
Hanja	申京淑
Revised Romanization	Sin Gyeong-suk
McCune- Reischauer	Sin Kyŏngsuk
See also : Korean name

Sin Kyong-suk (born January 12, 1963 in Chŏngŭp in North Chŏlla Province ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Shin Kyong-suk (or Shin Kyoung-sook) grew up as the fourth daughter of six siblings in Chŏngŭp, North Chŏlla Province . By the time she graduated from middle school, she walked or cycled 4 kilometers to school every day. The impressions of the surroundings had a lasting effect on her later writing. Chŏngŭp is not only her place of birth, but also her spiritual home , which forms the breeding ground for her literary world. Since the family could not afford their schooling, she went to Seoul with her maternal cousin in 1978 . There she worked in an electronics factory in the Kuro factory area . The following year she was selected as a particularly gifted student, which enabled her to attend the Yŏngdŭngp'o girls' school. During the day she turned screws into electronic products, in the evening she copied the book The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui in her notebook instead of listening to the boring lessons. As she was copying it, she realized that she wanted to pursue a career in writing. In 1982 she began studying creative writing at the Seoul Art Academy. Two years later she received the prize for the best young author in the magazine "Literatur und Kunst" (Munye chungang) with the novel Winter Parable. Thus began her writing career. During that time she worked for a publishing house and radio. Thanks to the success of her volume of short stories The Place where a Harmonium was , she was able to work as a freelance writer. So far, she has received numerous renowned literary prizes for her five volumes of short stories and four novels, including the Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize and the Prize for Young Artists of Today. These awards reflect their popularity with both readers and critics.

Shin Kyong-suk believes that only in this lifetime will she write novels. “If I were given another life, I would not be a writer.” Is her seemingly paradoxical confession of love to literature.

On June 16, 2015, the author Lee Eung-jun published an article in the Huffington Post Korea that Sin allegedly plagiarized a passage from Yukio Mishima's short story Yūkoku (1961) for her work Legend . Sin apologized and her publisher stopped selling the short story collection.

Work

Volumes of stories

• 겨울 우화 ( Winter Parable ) Seoul: Koryowon, 1990
• 풍금 이 있던 자리 ( The place where a harmonium was ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 1993
• 오래 전 집을 떠날 때 ( When I left home long before ) Seoul: Ch'angbi, 1996
• 강물 이 될 때 까지 ( Until it becomes a river ) Seoul: Munhakdongne, 1998
• 딸기 밭 ( strawberry field ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 2000
• 종소리 ( ringing bells ) Seoul: Munhakdongne, 2003

Collections of articles

• 자거라, 네 슬픔 아 ( Sleep, Sorrow ), 2003
• 아름다운 그늘 ( Beautiful Shade ), 1995

Novels

• 깊은 슬픔 ( Deep Pain ) Seoul: Munhakdongne, 1994
• 외딴 방 ( The Offside Room ) Seoul: Munhakdongne, 1995
• 기차 는 7 시 에 떠나 네 ( The train leaves at 7 a.m. ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 1999
• 바이올렛 ( purple ) Seoul: Munhakdongne, 2001
• 리진 ( Lee Jin ) Munhakdongne, 2007
• 엄마 를 부탁해 ('German title As mother disappeared ) Ch'angbi, 2009

Translations

German

• The girl Wonhi in: At the end of time , Bielefeld: Pendragon Verlag (1999) ISBN 3929096846
• The room in the offside Bielefeld: Pendragon (2001) ISBN 978-3934872028
• Collected lights in: Collected lights , Bielefeld: Pendragon (2002) ISBN 978-3-93487-234-9
• The place where a harmonium was (narration) (unpublished)
• Piper disappeared as a mother (2012) ISBN 978-3492055109

English

• The Train Leaves at Seven (unreleased)
• Please look after Mom 2008 Knopf 2011 ISBN 978-0307593917
• I'll Be Right There Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2010

Awards

• 1993: Prize for Young Artists of Today
• 1993: Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize
• 1993: Prize for Contemporary Literature
• 1993: Literature Prize of the 21st Century
• 1996: Manhae Literature Prize
• 1997: Tongin Literature Prize
• 2001: Yi Sang Literature Prize
• 2006: O-Yŏng-su Literature Prize
• 2011: Korean Culture and Art Prize
• 2012: Award of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club in the Literature category
• 2012: Man Asia Literature Prize
• 2012: Mark of Respect Award
• 2013: Ho Am Prize for Artists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 신경숙 Retrieved January 21, 2014 (Korean)
2. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur : Mutterwärme: The Korean writer Kyung-Sook Shin from February 4, 2013, accessed on July 10, 2013.
3. ↑ LTI Korea: Shin Kyoung-sook ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2013 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 July 10 (Korean). 
4. ↑ Author Database Shin Kyoung-sook ( Memento of the original from November 4, 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 on July 10, 2013. 
5. ↑ Lee Eung-jun : 우상 의 어둠, 문학 의 타락 | 신경숙 의 미시마 유키오 표절. In: Huffington Post Korea. June 16, 2015, accessed July 4, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Kim Hyung-eun, Shin June-Bong, Min Gyeong-won: Plagiarism accusation rocks Korea's literary set. In: JoongAng Daily . June 24, 2015, accessed July 4, 2015 . 
7. ^ Alastair Gale: Award-Winning South Korean Author Has Book Withdrawn Over Plagiarism. Shin Kyung-sook won the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. In: The Wall Street Journal . June 23, 2015, accessed July 4, 2015 . 

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