Jo Kyung-ran

Jo Kyung-ran
Born December 0, 1969 (1969-00-00) (age 43)
Occupation Novelist
Nationality South Korea
Period 1969-present
This is a Korean name; the family name is 조.

Jo Kyung-ran (born 1969) (Hangul: 조경란) is a South Korean writer.

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Life

Jo Kyung-ran was born in Seoul in 1969 [1] where she went on to study creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts,[2] but did not decide to become a writer until she turned 28.[3] Jo lived in Bonngcheon-dong for nearly 20 years in a small rooftop apartment which her father built for her.[4] She made her literary debut in 1996 with the short story, French Optical which won the Donga-Ilbo Prize.[5] Internationally famous, she is a speaker in demand for conferences, having appeared at “Beyond Borders: Translating and Publishing Korean Literature in the U.S.” in New York in 2009 [6] and more recently at The Seoul International Forum for Literature 2001.[7]

Work

Jo’s work is famous for taking trivial, mundane, and everyday occurrences and delicately describing them in subtle emotional tones.[8] Her work has won the Munhakdongne New Writer Award, the Today’s Young Artist Award, The Contemporary Literature Award (for the 2003 novella A Narrow Gate), and the Dong-in Literary Award.[9] Her work has been translated into French, German, and English.[10]

Works in English

Tongue

Works in Korean (Partial)

French Optical
My Purple Sofa
Looking for the Elephant
The Ladle Story
I Bought a Balloon
Time for Breaking Bread
Tongue
Swordfish

References

  1. ^ University of Iowa International Writing Program: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/WRIT/WRITmain2004.html
  2. ^ The Globalizing World and the Human Community, The Seoul International Forum of Literature 2011, p. 388
  3. ^ Korean Literature in Translation: http://www.ktlit.com/?p=3732
  4. ^ Cha Mi-ryeong,Koreana Magazine: http://www.koreana.or.kr/months/news_view.asp?b_idx=144&lang=rt&page_type=list
  5. ^ University of Iowa International Writing Program: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/WRIT/WRITmain2004.html
  6. ^ List Magazine Whon Jaeheoun(Vol.6 Winter 2009 (P http://www.list.or.kr/articles/article_view.htm?Div1=9&Idx=301
  7. ^ Korean Literature in Translation: http://www.ktlit.com/?p=3732
  8. ^ The Globalizing World and the Human Community, The Seoul International Forum of Literature 2011, p. 388
  9. ^ The Globalizing World and the Human Community, The Seoul International Forum of Literature 2011, p. 388
  10. ^ The Globalizing World and the Human Community, The Seoul International Forum of Literature 2011, p. 388

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