Yi Sang Literary Award
1 appearances
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Edition 16 (1992) Winner
Yang Gwija
ヤン・グィジャ
Yang Gwija
Aliases:
Yang Gui-ja
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1955-07-01 （Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do）
- Nationality
- South Korean
- Languages
- Korean
- Residence History
- Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do → Seoul
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, writer
- Active Years
- 1980-
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wonkwang University | — | Korean Literature | 学士 | — | South Korea |
Wonkwang University
Korean Literature
Degree:
学士
Year of Graduation:
1978
Country:
South Korea
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Fifth Yoo Juhyeon Literature Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Sixteenth Yi Sang Literature Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1996 | Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Fifth Yoo Juhyeon Literature Award
1988
Result:
受賞
Sixteenth Yi Sang Literature Award
1992
Result:
受賞
Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award
1996
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Hyundae Munhak Award (Contemporary Literature Award)
1 appearances
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Edition 41 (1996) Winner
Works
Major Works
Neighbors in Wonmi-dong
1987 linked short storiesDepiction of lives on the periphery of industrial culture
isolationalienationmodernization
Translations
- A Distant and Beautiful Place
Bibliography
- The Deaf Bird (1980)
- Along the River of Babylon (1985)
- Neighbors in Wonmi-dong (1987)
- Hope (1991)
- Sorrow Can Be Power (1993)
- Love for a Thousand Years (1995)
- Contradictions (1998)
Translations of Works
- A Distant and Beautiful Place
- Contradictions
- Rust
- Nuri, Nuri, What Are You Doing?
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- personal fictiondisillusionment
- Recurring Motifs
- alienation from modernizationconsumer culturepast trauma
Legacy
Known for depicting the periphery of industrial society in modern Korean literature