Kyung-Sook Shin, one of South Korea’s most acclaimed novelists, is perhaps best known in the West for her international bestseller, “Please Look After Mom.” The novel won the 2012 Man Asian Literary ...
“Please Look After Mom” is the work of a popular South Korean novelist, Kyung-sook Shin, who is being published in English for the first time. It sold more than a million copies in South Korea, where ...
Please Look After Mom has sold almost 2 million copies in South Korea South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin has become the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize. Please Look After Mom details ...
The Daily Princetonian: Understanding Korea's history and ancestors' stories: Kyung-sook Shin's reading ‘I Went Home to See my Father’
Among a wide expanse of chattering undergraduates, enthusiastic graduate students, and a few elderly citizens listening while she sketches her likeness into the paper, the author Kyung-sook Shin sits ...
Understanding Korea's history and ancestors' stories: Kyung-sook Shin's reading ‘I Went Home to See my Father’
Publishers Weekly: Kyung-sook Shin Becomes First Woman to Win Man Asian Prize
Kyung-sook Shin, trans. from the Korean by Chi-young Kim, Knopf, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-59391-7 Shin's affecting English-language debut centers on the life of a hardworking, uncomplaining woman ...
She has been writing for 28 years in her native South Korea, but Kyung-sook Shin said she feels like a newcomer again after becoming the first woman to win Asia's top literary prize. The South Korean ...
In the touching if plodding latest from Shin (Please Look After Mom), a woman named Hon returns from Seoul to her rural hometown in South Korea to live with her father. Hon’s young daughter died in an ...