Lit in Translation

Kim In-suk

김인숙

Born 1963 · South Korea

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Daesan 2006 · Winner

    그 여자의 자서전

    Geu yeojaui jaseojeon

    Title translated by AI:“Her Autobiography”

    Kim In-suk · 42 when first published

    Short stories · 266 pages

    AI-generated summary:Eight stories of people looking for a reason to go on after love and dreams have gone. In the title story, a woman novelist who was in her twenties in the 1980s is hired to ghostwrite a rich upstart's memoirs and stalls at his services to democracy.

  • No English yet

    Yi Sang 2003 · Winner

    바다와 나비

    Badawa nabi

    Title translated by AI:“The Sea and the Butterfly”

    Kim In-suk · 39 when first published

    Short story · 356 pages · Migration, Family

    AI-generated summary:A Korean woman who has moved to China, using her child's schooling as a reason to live apart from her husband, meets Chae-geum, a young woman desperate to leave China for Korea.