Cheon Myeong-kwan

Books on prize lists

• 고래

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  International Booker 2023 · Shortlist

  Whale

  고래 · Gorae

  Cheon Myeong-kwan · 40 when first published

  Novel · 367 pages

  Translated by Chi-Young Kim

  AIAI-generated summary:A girl from a mountain village becomes a businesswoman in a small town amid a crowd of schemers and misfits, and years later her mentally disabled daughter Chunhui comes back from prison to a ruined brick factory.

• 파충류의 밤

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  Yi Sang 2014 · Excellence prize

  파충류의 밤

  Pachungnyuui bam

  AITitle translated by AI:“Night of the Reptiles”

  Cheon Myeong-kwan · 49 when first published

  Short story

  AIAI-generated summary:A woman who has spent over twenty years in book publishing, ending up in charge of its editors, can no longer sleep, and gets through long, lonely nights on pills of every kind.