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Shin Kyung-sook

申京淑　/　しん・ぎょんすく

Writer from South Korea

January 12, 1963 (age 63)　・　Jeongeup, North Jeolla, South Korea

North Jeolla
writer
novelist

My Take

Shin Kyung-sook is, to me, one of the most quietly powerful voices to emerge from South Korean literature. Born in Jeongeup in 1963 and educated at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, she built a body of work that reaches deep into family, memory, and loss. Please Look After Mom is the book I'd point anyone toward first; it made her the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012. The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness shows the same intimate, searching touch. With the Manhae Prize and Ho-Am Prize already to her name, she's a writer I take seriously and reread.

Overview

Kyung-sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook (Korean: 신경숙, born 12 January 1963), is a South Korean writer. She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Shin Kyung-sook
Name (Japanese): 申京淑
Reading: しん・ぎょんすく
Born: January 12, 1963 (age 63)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Rabbit
Origin: Jeongeup, North Jeolla, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: writer / novelist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

1996 Manhae Prize
Ho-Am Prize in the Arts

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Please Look After Mom	—
Notable work	The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B3%E4%BA%AC%E6%B7%91

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