Shin Kyung-sook
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Kyung-sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook, is a South Korean writer. She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom.
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People have lost something important they took for granted, and that loss leaves them devastated.
On the aftermath of the Korean War in “Kyung-Sook Shin: 'In my 20s I lived through an era of terrible political events and suspicious
She is like a great writer, with the power to read people; I was influenced by her. But hers wasn't a life where you could sit indoors with books.
On the resilience of her mother in “Kyung-Sook Shin: 'In my 20s I lived through an era of terrible political events and suspicious deaths'”
I was very young, and those events affected me deeply. I feel the time given to me doesn't belong only to me.
On being a survivor in “Kyung-Sook Shin: 'In my 20s I lived through an era of terrible political events and suspicious deaths'” in The
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