조해진
Born 1976 · South Korea
Daesan 2019 · Winner
단순한 진심 · Dansunhan jinsim
Cho Haejin · 43 when first published
Novel · 240 pages · Migration, Family
AI-generated summary:Nana, a Korean-born playwright adopted to France, learns she is pregnant just as a Korean student asks to make a film about the name she had before her adoption, and travels to Seoul to look for where she came from.
Yi Sang 2018 · Excellence prize
Pajonghaneun bam
Title translated by AI:“Night of Sowing”
Cho Haejin · 41 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:A media artist preparing a film on a factory shut down after its workers were killed by mercury, back when the country first industrialised, comes to understand what remembering the dead requires.
Yi Sang 2017 · Excellence prize
Nun sogui saram
Title translated by AI:“The Person in the Snow”
Cho Haejin · 40 when first published
Short story · War
AI-generated summary:When the subject of their oral history project dies, the two people who recorded the dead person's memories of the war travel together to pay their respects.
Yi Sang 2014 · Excellence prize
Bichui howi
Title translated by AI:“Escort of Light”
Cho Haejin · 37 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:A magazine reporter interviews Kwon Eun, a promising young photographer, without remembering that years ago, as her classmate, the reporter brought her a stolen film camera when she was a girl shut away at home after her father's death.
Yi Sang 2012 · Excellence prize
Yuri
Title translated by AI:“Glass”
Cho Haejin · 35 when first published
Short story