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Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award
The company Contemporary Literature (“Hyundae Munhak” in Korean language, Korean), founded in South Korea in 1954, is one of the leading publishing companies in the literary field and has been publishing the nation's most prestigious monthly literary magazine ''Hyundae Munhak'' and a wide range of books on humanities and arts. Hyundae Munhak also presents annual literary awards, which are among the most prestigious in Korea. About this award, the company says: :The company Contemporary Literature annually honors the year's most outstanding works in fiction, poetry and criticism through its annual Contemporary Literature Prize, one of the most coveted literary awards in Korea, to encourage creative spirit of the literary elites of the nation. :The magazine Contemporary Literature has been playing the role of steering wheel in the history of modern Korean literature, is available in major libraries across the world, and serves as the most reliable source for the study of contem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea
Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 38th parallel between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK). Both countries proclaimed independence in 1948, and the two countries fought the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. The region is bordered by China to the north and Russia to the northeast, across the Yalu River, Amnok (Yalu) and Tumen River, Duman (Tumen) rivers, and is separated from Japan to the southeast by the Korea Strait. Known human habitation of the Korean peninsula dates to 40,000 BC. The kingdom of Gojoseon, which according to tradition was founded in 2333 BC, fell to the Han dynasty in 108 BC. It was followed by the Three Kingdoms of Korea, Three Kingdoms period, in which Korea was divided into Goguryeo, Baekje, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Wansuh
Park Wan-suh (; October 20, 1931January 22, 2011) was a South Korean writer. Life Park Wan-suh (also Park Wan-seo, Park Wan-so, Park Wansuh, Park Kee-pah, Pak Wan-so, Pak Wanso) was born in 1931 in Gaepung-gun in what is now North Hwanghae Province in North Korea.Writer, Park Wansuh. List: Books from Korea. KLTI Park entered , but dropped out almost immediately after attending classes due to the outbreak of the and the death of her brother. During the war, Park was separated fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Chae-won (writer)
Kim Chae-won (; born 1946) is a South Korean author best known for the dreamlike quality of her prose. Life Kim Chae-won was born in Deokso, Gyeonggi Province in 1946. She studied painting at Ewha Womans University. Her father is the poet Kim Dong-hwan, one of Korea's foremost modernist poets (he wrote Korea's first modern epic, ''Night at the Border''), and her mother is the novelist Choe Jeong-hui. Kim grew up with her older sister under the care of her mother after her father was kidnapped by the North Korean government during the political turmoil after the Korean War. Her older sister Kim Ji-won Kim Ji-won (; born October 19, 1992) is a South Korean actress. She gained recognition through her roles in Korean drama, television series ''The Heirs'' (2013) and ''Descendants of the Sun'' (2016), before taking on leading roles in ''Fight f ... is also a novelist, and both sisters have received the respected Yi Sang Literary Award. They have collaborated on the short sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyun Hye-young
Pyun Hye-young (, born 1972) is a South Korean writer. Life Pyun Hye-young was born in Seoul in 1972. She earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. After receiving these degrees, Pyun worked as an office worker, and many office workers appear in her stories. Work Pyun began publishing in 2000 and published three collections of stories, ''Aoi Garden'', ''To the Kennels'', and ''Evening Proposal'' as well as the novel ''Ashes and Red''. In 2007, ''To the Kennels'' won the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, in 2009 the short story "O. Cuniculus" won the Yi Hyoseok Literature Prize and then the Today's Young Writer Award in 2010, while in 2011 ''Evening Proposal'' won the Dong-in Literary Award. Her works have several themes including alienation in modern life and an apocalyptic world, and they are often infused with grotesque images. The novel ''Ashes and Red'' explores irony and the dual nature of humanity. Abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Soom
Kim Sum (born Kim Sujin, 23 July 1974) is a South Korean writer, best known as the author of ''One Left'' (, 2016), a novel dealing with the issue of Korean comfort women in the Imperial Japanese Army. Life Kim Sum was born in 1974 at a seaside town in Bangeojin, Ulsan, South Korea. When she was six, her father went to the Middle East for a manual labor job, leaving the rest of the family to move into her grandfather's house in Geumsan County, South Chungcheong Province, where she ended up spending her childhood. Upon entering high school, she joined a literature club, the Cheong-un Literary Society, and dabbled in writing poetry. In 1997 she published her first short story, "On Slowness" (), in the Daejeon Ilbo, which won their New Writer's Award. Kim said she had written the story because she wanted to experiment with longer pieces of writing, rather than just poetry. A year later in 1998 she published another short story, "Time in the Middle Ages" (), which won the Munhakdong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ha Seong-nan
Ha Seong-nan (; born 28 June 1967) is a South Korean writer. Biography Ha was born in Seoul and is the eldest of three children, a position that often led her to assume responsibilities traditionally associated with a son. She began writing during elementary and middle school, though with limited recognition at first. In high school, she started composing short stories and received several school prizes for her work. After graduating, Ha worked at a wood-importing firm before enrolling in the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of Arts in 1990. Following her graduation, she joined Moonji Publishing. While working at Moonji Publishing, Ha continued to write and refine her craft. Her experiences during this time, observing the nuances of daily life and the complexities of human relationships, profoundly influenced her writing style and themes. Ha's debut in 1996 with "Grass" marked the beginning of a successful and critically acclaimed career. During all thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Seung-u
Lee Seung-u (, born 21 February 1959) is a South Korean writer. Life Lee Seung-u was born in Jangheung, Jeollanam-do in 1959.The Globalizing World and the Human Community, The Seoul International Forum of Literature 2011, p. 392 Lee Seung-u graduated from Seoul Theological University and studied at Yonsei University Graduate School of Theology.Korean Literature Translation Institute, Author Introductions. One of the outstanding writers to have emerged in South Korea after the political repression of the 1980s, he is today of Korean Literature at |
Jung Ihyun
Jeong Yi-hyeon (born 1972) is a South Korean novelist. Life Jeong Yi-hyeon was born in Seoul in 1972. She graduated from Sungshin Women's University Graduate School, and studied in the Department of Creative Writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts. Career Jeong Yi-hyeon began her literary career in 2001. In 2002, she received the New Writer's Award by Moonji. Soon thereafter, her short story ''The Loneliness of Others'' (타인의 고독) received the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award, and ''Sampoong Department Store'' (삼풍백화점) received the Modern Literary Award. Jeong Yi-hyeon is also an innovator in the field of Internet serialization in Korea, having written her second novel ''You Do Not Know'', on the Kyobo Book Center blog. Initial posting of chapters resulted in 400,000 visitors to the serial. Works In opposition to the Korean literary tradition of focusing on the marginalised and dispossessed, Jeong Yi-hyeon depicts the dating, marriage, career lives, desires and conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Kyung-ran
Jo Kyung Ran (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean writer. Life Jo Kyung Ran was born in Seoul in 1969 where she went on to study creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, but did not decide to become a writer until she turned 28. Jo lived in Bonngcheon-dong for nearly 20 years in a small rooftop apartment that her father built for her. She made her literary debut in 1996 with the short story, French Optical which won the Donga-Ilbo Prize. Internationally famous, she is a speaker in demand for conferences, having appeared at “Beyond Borders: Translating and Publishing Korean Literature in the U.S.” in New York in 2009 and more recently at The Seoul International Forum for Literature 2011. Work Jo's work is famous for taking trivial, mundane, and everyday occurrences and delicately describing them in subtle emotional tones. LTI Korea describes her contributions to Korean Literature: :Cho tends to dwell on the impressio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Hye-gyeong
Lee Hye-gyeong (; born 1960) is a South Korean writer who has published three collections of works and received multiple awards. Life In her first year of university, Lee was exposed to national political controversies including pictures from the 1980 Kwangju massacre, which caused her to drop out of college in 1985 to disguise herself as a worker and go to a factory. She began to read voraciously, debate social issues, and build a personal national consciousness. Lee taught high school for two years before making her literary debut. She often travels to remote and underdeveloped parts of the world, and served as a volunteer worker in Indonesia for two years. Work Lee is still considered an author in the new generation of women writers, whose careers are still evolving. Lee believes that she cannot write a single sentence about something she has not personally experienced and felt in the deepest core of her being. Her dependency on real experiences, which explains the smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Insuk
Kim Insuk () is a South Korean writer. Life Kim Insuk was born in 1963 in Seoul. She suffered the death of her father when she was five years old. She spent her childhood under the mother of a hostess. She graduated from Jinmyeong Girls' High School and Yonsei University. She is an author from the Korean 386 generation (Coin termed in the early 1990s describing writers who were in their 30s, attended university in the 1980s, and born in the 1960s). She, along with Shin Kyung-sook and Gong Ji-young, is one of the prominent new wave of female writers from that group. Kim began her writing career early, making her literary debut when she had just entered university, at the age of 20 (Korean age in 1983, when she won Chosun Ilbo Literary Contest). She has won all three of Korea's major literary awards, the Yi Sang Literary Award, Dong-in Literary Award, and Daesan, and she has had more than 30 books published. She has also lived in China in this decade; and in Spring 2011 was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Young-ha
Young-ha Kim (c. November 11, 1968) is a modern South Korean writer. Life Kim was born in Hwacheon on November 11, 1968. He moved from place to place as a child, since his father was in the military. As a child, he suffered from gas poisoning from coal gas and lost memory before ten. He was educated at Yonsei University in Seoul, earning undergraduate as well as graduate degrees in Business Administration from Yonsei University, but he didn't show much interest in it. Instead he focused on writing stories. Kim, after graduating from Yonsei University in 1993, began his military service as an assistant detective at the military police 51st Infantry Division near Suwon. His career as a professional writer started in 1995 right after discharge when his short-story ''A Meditation On Mirror'' (Geoure daehan myeongsang) appeared in Review, and the following year, won the 1st New Writer's Award given by Munhak Dongne with the novel, ''I Have a Right to Destroy Myself'' (Naneun nareul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
