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Kyung-sook Shin

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Kyung-sook Shin

Kyung-sook Shin, the author of seventeen works of fiction, is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed novelists. Her best seller Please Look After Mom has been translated into more than thirty languages....

She has been honored with the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Manhae Prize, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu, as well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, awarded for her body of work for general achievement in Korean culture and the arts. Her I’ll Be Right There was published by Other Press in 2014.

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