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Gong Ji-young

공지영

Born 1963 · South Korea

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Books on prize lists

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    Yi Sang 2011 · Winner

    맨발로 글목을 돌다

    Maenballo geulmogeul dolda

    Title translated by AI:“Turning the Corner of Writing Barefoot”

    Gong Ji-young · 47 when first published

    Short story · 349 pages

    AI-generated summary:A novelist who goes by the author's own name sets her life beside H, her Japanese translator, kidnapped to North Korea and home after 24 years, beside the women forced into wartime sexual slavery and Jews sent to Auschwitz.