Park Min-gyu (born 1968) () is a South Korean writer.

Biography

Park Min-gyu was born in

Ulsan Ulsan (; ), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighbo ...

, a small town in southeast province in South Korea in 1968. He graduated from Chungang University. His first two novels, ''Legend of the World's Superheroes'' (Chigu yongung chonsol) and ''The Sammi Superstars' Last Fan Club'' (Sammi syuposuta oe majimak paenkullob), were both published in 2003 and earned him the Munhak Dongne Author Award and the

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Literary Prize, respectively. His short story ''Raccoon World'' (Komawo, kwayon neoguri-ya) was included in the 2005 '' Yi Sang Literary Award Collection''.Park Min-gyu, http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/ParkMinGyu.htm His short stories are often characterized by a sense of humor pervasive but not overwhelming throughout the text. Characters are described to struggle with financial difficulties without a promising future. Park is known as a successful writer but is also famous for his unique style: he appears with a ponytail and goggle-like sunglasses. Park's novels, including ''Pavane for a Dead Princess'', were published in 2009. One of the stories titled 〈아침의 문〉 ''The Door of Morning'' won

Yi Sang Literary Award The Yi Sang Literary Award (이상문학상) is a South Korean literary award. It is one of South Korea's most prestigious literary awards, named after Yi Sang, an innovative writer in modern Korean literature. The Yi Sang Literary Award was esta ...

. In 2010, Park's short story, ''A Nap'' was adapted into a theatrical play of the same name. It was directed by filmmaker

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and starred Kibum of

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as a young version of male lead Young-jin with

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. It played at Baekam Art Hall in

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, Seoul from January 26 to March 28.

Works

Works in translation

Castella
*
Dinner with Buffet
' (

ASIA Publishers ASIA Publishers () is a Seoul-based book publisher best known for producing multi-volume series of translated Korean literature in bilingual format, generally at novella length and usually featuring a short biography of the author, a background of ...

, 2014)
Pavane for a Dead Princess
(Dalkey Press, 2014) * ''Raccoon World'' trans. by Jenny Wang Medina
Is That So? I'm a Giraffe
trans. by Sora Kim-Russell *

' trans. by Brother Anthony of Taizein Koreana: Korean Art & Culture (The Korea Foundation) Vol. 22, No.1 Spring 2008 pages 88 - 99. http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/KoreanStandards.htm
Say Ah, Pelican

Works in Korean (partial)

Novels * ''Legend of the World's Superheroes'' (2003) * ''The Sammi Superstars' Last Fan Club'' (2003) * ''Ping Pong'' (2006) * ''Pavane for a Dead Princess'' (2009) * ''The Door of Morning'' (2010) Short Stories * ''Castella'' (Collection, 2005) * ''Double'' (Collection in two volumes, 2010) * ''A Nap''

Awards

* Yi Hyosŏk Literary Award (2007) *

(2010 for The Door of Morning)

References

External links

The Faces of Park Min-gyu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Park, Min-Gyu 1968 births South Korean novelists Living people Writers from Ulsan Yi Sang Literary Award winners