이장욱
Born 1968 · South Korea
Yi Sang 2023 · Excellence prize
Keurokap
Lee Jang-wook · 54 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:Told in the second person, the story follows someone who keeps replaying an old UFC fight between two faded champions and nurses a grudge against the upstairs neighbour, a former rival at work, until a strange dripping sound sends them upstairs.
Yi Sang 2022 · Excellence prize
Jamsujonggwa dok
Title translated by AI:“The Diving Bell and the Poison”
Lee Jang-wook · 53 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:Gong, a surgeon tending a comatose patient who set a fire and then jumped while ablaze, cannot look at him without thinking of Hyun-woo, the photographer she lived with for five years.
Yi Sang 2015 · Excellence prize
Keuriseumaseu kaereol
Title translated by AI:“Christmas Carol”
Lee Jang-wook · 46 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:On Christmas Eve a successful consultant hears from a man his wife once dated, who demands a meeting: he wants to spend a night as her husband, lying in her bed.
Yi Sang 2014 · Excellence prize
Girini anin modeun geose daehan iyagi
Title translated by AI:“A Story about Everything That Is Not a Giraffe”
Lee Jang-wook · 45 when first published
Short story
Yi Sang 2013 · Excellence prize
Jeolban isangui haruo
Title translated by AI:“More Than Half of Haruo”
Lee Jang-wook · 44 when first published
Short story