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Jung Mi-Kyung

チョン・ミギョン

Jeong Migyeong

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1960-02-04 (Masan)
Died
2017-01-18 (Hallym Univ. Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang) age 56
Nationality
South Korea
Languages
Korean

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
1987-2017

Education

Ewha Womans University
English literature
Country: South Korea

Awards

Yi Sang Literature Award
2006
Work: Divide, the Night
Result: winner
Today's Artist Award
2002
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La Vie en Rose

2002 Novel

Details unknown

The Strange Sorrow of Wonderland

2005 Novel

Details unknown

Stars of Africa

2010 Novel

Details unknown

My Son's Girlfriend

2008 Short story collection

Details unknown

Translations
  • translated by Yu Young-nan

Bibliography

  • Heavy Snow
  • The Woman with Arsenic
  • Divide, the Night
  • La Vie en Rose
  • The Strange Sorrow of Wonderland
  • Stars of Africa
  • Bloodstained Lover
  • They Gave Me Balkan Roses
  • My Son's Girlfriend
  • French Laundry

Translations of Works

  • He Gave Me Roses of the Balkans (translated by Stella Kim)
  • My Son's Girlfriend (translated by Yu Young-nan)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Portraying a deceptive society full of absurd spectacles

Legacy

A modern South Korean novelist who achieved great success.