최은미
Born 1978 · South Korea
Yi Sang 2023 · Excellence prize
Geugot
Title translated by AI:“That Place”
Choi Eun-mi · 44 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:Haunted by being trapped by a summer flood long ago, someone who keeps a survival bag packed is shut inside a sports centre turned heatwave shelter, as a typhoon nears and a bear escapes nearby.
Yi Sang 2022 · Excellence prize
Gobyeol
Title translated by AI:“Farewell”
Choi Eun-mi · 43 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:At her mother-in-law's wake, a woman who gave up her job at a cultural foundation to marry her boss watches the foundation's staff jockey for power, and remembers the USB stick that holds her working life.
Daesan 2018 · Winner
Ahopbeonjjae pado
Title translated by AI:“The Ninth Wave”
Choi Eun-mi · 39 when first published
Novel · 371 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:Song In-hwa comes back to Cheokju, an east-coast town split over plans for a nuclear power plant, eighteen years after her father died at a limestone quarry. Soon an old man who was the chief suspect then dies of poisoned rice wine.