Pyun Hye-Young Goes Up on the Wikipedia

KTLIT LogoIn advance of a meeting with authors Kim Yeon-su, Kim In-sook and Pyun Hye-young, I’ve put up the Wikipedia Page for Pyun Hye-Young (Kim In-sook is already done), with Kim Yeon-su to go.

Pyun Hye-Young’s page is here, and looks like this (picture will be inserted after the meeting):

 

Pyun Hye-Young

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Pyun.
Pyun Hye-Young
Born December 0, 1972 (age 41)
South Korea
Occupation Author
Language Korean
Nationality South Korean
Ethnicity Korean
Period 1972-Present
Genres Modernist
Pyun Hye-Young
Hangul 편혜영
Revised Romanization Pyun Hye-Young

Pyun Hye-Young (born 1972) (Hangul: 편혜영) is a South Korean writer.

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Life

Pyun Hye-Young was born in Seoul in 1972[1]. She earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. After receiving these degrees, Pyun worked as an office worker, and many office workers appear in her stories [2].

Work

Pyun began publishing in 2000 and published three collections of stories, Aoi Garden, To The Kennels, and Evening Courtship as well as the novel Ashes and Red. In 2007, To the Kennels won the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, in 2009 the short story O Cuniculi won the Yi Hyo-Seok Literature prize and then the Today’s Young Writer Award in 2010, while in 2011 Evening Courtship won the Dong-in Literary Award[3]. Her works have several themes including alietnation in modern life, an apocalyptic world, and they are often infused with grotesque images[4] The novel Ashes and Red explores irony and the dual nature of humanity [5]

Awards

• 2007년 제40회 한국일보문학상
• 2007년 제5회 자랑스런 문화인상
• 2009년 제10회 이효석문학상
• 2010년 제18회 오늘의 젊은 예술가상(문학부문)
• 2012년 제42회 동인문학상

Works in English

O Cuniculi (available online)

Works in Korean (Partial)

Fiction Collections
《아오이가든》(문학과지성사, 2005)
《사육장 쪽으로》(문학동네, 2007)
《저녁의 구애》(문학과지성사, 2011)

Long Fiction
재와 빨강》(창비, 2010)
서쪽 숲에 갔다》(문학과지성사, 2012)

References

  1. ^ Hye-Young Pyun, Words Without Borders, www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/hye-young-pyun
  2. ^ Necessary or True Happenstances: An Introduction to the Work of Hye Young-Pyun, www..
  3. ^ Hye-Young Pyun, Words Without Borders, www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/hye-young-pyun
  4. ^ Exchanging Words: A Bilingual Reading of Contemporary Korean Fiction, UC Irvine School of Social Sciences, www.socsci.uc.ed/node/553
  5. ^ Witness to Solitude: Novelist Pyun Hye-Young, by Yang Yun-eui LIST Magazine, Vol. 12, Summer 2011