Jo Kyung Ran | |
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Born | 1969 (age 54–55) |
Language | Korean |
Nationality | South Korean |
Jo Kyung-ran | |
Hangul | 조경란 |
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Revised Romanization | Jo Gyeongnan |
McCune–Reischauer | Cho Kyŏngnan |
Jo Kyung Ran (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea [1]) is a South Korean writer. [2]
Jo Kyung Ran was born in Seoul in 1969 [3] where she went on to study creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, [4] but did not decide to become a writer until she turned 28. [5] Jo lived in Bonngcheon-dong for nearly 20 years in a small rooftop apartment that her father built for her. [6] She made her literary debut in 1996 with the short story, French Optical which won the Donga-Ilbo Prize. [7] 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 [8] and more recently at The Seoul International Forum for Literature 2011. [9]
Jo's work is famous for taking trivial, mundane, and everyday occurrences and delicately describing them in subtle emotional tones. [10]
LTI Korea describes her contributions to Korean Literature:
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(2008). [12] Her work has been translated into French, German, Hebrew and English. [13]
An interview with the author (in English and Korean) can be found at KTLIT: Video bilingual interview of Jo Kyung Ran (“Tongue”) by Krys Lee (“Drifting House”)
Jo Kyung Ran | |
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Born | 1969 (age 54–55) |
Language | Korean |
Nationality | South Korean |
Jo Kyung-ran | |
Hangul | 조경란 |
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Revised Romanization | Jo Gyeongnan |
McCune–Reischauer | Cho Kyŏngnan |
Jo Kyung Ran (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea [1]) is a South Korean writer. [2]
Jo Kyung Ran was born in Seoul in 1969 [3] where she went on to study creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, [4] but did not decide to become a writer until she turned 28. [5] Jo lived in Bonngcheon-dong for nearly 20 years in a small rooftop apartment that her father built for her. [6] She made her literary debut in 1996 with the short story, French Optical which won the Donga-Ilbo Prize. [7] 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 [8] and more recently at The Seoul International Forum for Literature 2011. [9]
Jo's work is famous for taking trivial, mundane, and everyday occurrences and delicately describing them in subtle emotional tones. [10]
LTI Korea describes her contributions to Korean Literature:
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(2008). [12] Her work has been translated into French, German, Hebrew and English. [13]
An interview with the author (in English and Korean) can be found at KTLIT: Video bilingual interview of Jo Kyung Ran (“Tongue”) by Krys Lee (“Drifting House”)