천운영
Born 1971 · South Korea
Yi Sang 2021 · Excellence prize
Abeojiga doeeojuo
Title translated by AI:“Be My Father”
Chun Woon-young · 49 when first published
Short story · Family
AI-generated summary:A daughter who sees her mother's life as one long sacrifice to a violent, abusive father learns that her mother tells that life very differently.
Yi Sang 2013 · Excellence prize
Eommado asidasipi
Title translated by AI:“As You Know, Mother”
Chun Woon-young · 41 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:An old man, his mother's eldest son, is left with a grief he cannot contain after she dies at eighty-five, having been bound to her more fiercely than he knew.
Yi Sang 2008 · Excellence prize
Naega deryeodajulge
Title translated by AI:“I'll Take You There”
Chun Woon-young · 36 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:Disgraced by a twisted rumour of an affair with a student, a man leaves a suicide note and walks into a fog-bound marsh, where three generations of women who live off the wetland, a girl, the girl's mother and grandmother, pull him out.
Yi Sang 2007 · Excellence prize
Sonyeon J-ui malkkeumhan heobeokji
Title translated by AI:“The Smooth Thighs of the Boy J”
Chun Woon-young · 35 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:A studio photographer who shoots nudes, mostly of couples about to marry and of girls, and whose marriage has gone cold, takes on a boy of eighteen as his assistant for a year after the two come to blows.
Yi Sang 2005 · Excellence prize
Se beonjjae yubang
Title translated by AI:“The Third Breast”
Chun Woon-young · 33 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:A man whose grandmother's breast was, in his childhood, his one way into love and the wider world becomes fixated on a 'third breast', a small swelling beside a nipple, when he happens upon it on a woman.
Yi Sang 2002 · Excellence prize
Nunborakon
Chun Woon-young · 30 when first published
Short story