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Kim Hee-seon

김희선

Born 1972 · South Korea

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Daesan 2024 · Winner

    247의 모든 것

    247ui modeun geot

    Title translated by AI:“Everything About 247”

    Kim Hee-seon · 52 when first published

    Novel · 222 pages · Speculative, Politics

    AI-generated summary:In a near-future Korea where fever medicine is banned after the pandemic, case 247, a super-spreader of a new Nipah virus strain, dies alone in a spacecraft he was exiled to, and everyone has a different story about who he was.

  • No English yet

    Yi Sang 2019 · Excellence prize

    해변의 묘지

    Haebyeonui myoji

    Title translated by AI:“The Graveyard by the Sea”

    Kim Hee-seon · 46 when first published

    Short story · Speculative

    AI-generated summary:A small boat drifts into Korea's East Sea carrying a fisherman lost from an ocean trawler and a youth who fled a Guatemalan rubbish dump, both claiming that something unreal carried them there.