권여선
Born 1965 · South Korea
Yi Sang 2008 · Winner
Sarangeul mitda
Title translated by AI:“Believing in Love”
Kwon Yeo-sun · 42 when first published
Short story · 363 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Over drinks in her favourite bar, a man of thirty-five and an old friend talk through the love affairs that have just ended for each of them, and she tells him a story about her aunt's death.
Yi Sang 2007 · Excellence prize
Yakkongi kkeulleun dongan
Title translated by AI:“While the Black Beans Boil”
Kwon Yeo-sun · 41 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:Yoon, a graduate student, is sent to act as go-between for a partly paralysed old professor, confined to a wheelchair since an accident, and spends her days in his house among his sons and his housekeeper.