Dong-in Literary Award
1 appearances
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Edition 29 (1996) Winner
Yi Sunwon
イ・スンウォン
I Sunwon
Aliases:
Lee Soon-won
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1957-00-00 （Gangneung）
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Languages
- Korean
- Residence History
- Gangneung
Career
- Occupations
- writer
- Active Years
- 1988-2024
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Dong-in Literary Award | Searching, a Pattern Flowing into My Mother's Heart | — | Dong-A Ilbo | winner |
| 2000 | Yi Hyoseok Literary Award | A Father's Sleep | — | — | winner |
Dong-in Literary Award
1996
Work:
Searching, a Pattern Flowing into My Mother's Heart
Organization:
Dong-A Ilbo
Result:
winner
Yi Hyoseok Literary Award
2000
Work:
A Father's Sleep
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Hyundae Munhak Award (Contemporary Literature Award)
1 appearances
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Edition 42 (1997) Winner
Works
Major Works
Face
1993 Short Story CollectionA short story about the May 19th Democratic Uprising
violencesocial change
Susaek, the Pattern of That Shade
1996 Short Story CollectionA moving story of family hardships and maternal love exploring negative side effects of rapid industrialization
familyindustrializationmaternal love
Translations
- Susaek: A Novel
Looking for a Horse
1997 Short Story CollectionExplores emptiness in consumer society
consumer societyemptiness
Translations
- Looking for a Horse
Bibliography
- Face (얼굴, 1993)
- Susaek, the Pattern of That Shade (수색, 그 물빛 무늬, 1996)
- In Search of a Horse (말을 찾아서, 1997)
- Daytime Moon (낮달, 1988)
- Eunbiryeong (은비령, 1997)
- Meditation on Jellyfish (해파리에 관한 명상, 1998)
- Love Like Poison (독약 같은 사랑, 1998)
- Innocence (순수, 2000)
- Twenty-Three and Forty-Six (스물셋, 그리고 마흔여섯, 2004)
- Model (모델, 2004)
Translations of Works
- Susaek: A Novel (2008)
- Looking for a Horse (2014)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- diverse and hard to categorizepessimistic assessment of new consumer society
- Recurring Motifs
- insensitivity to violenceindifference to others' sufferingchanges in modern society
Health
-
failing health高校時代Compelled to return to school and pursue education
Legacy
Modern South Korean writer addressing diverse topics, pessimistically assessing consumer society
Trivia
- Burned his school uniform on the beach in high school and devoted himself to vegetable farming for two years in a mountainous region of Gangwon Province
- Majored in economics in college with a special interest in advertising