손홍규
Born 1975 · South Korea
Yi Sang 2018 · Winner
Kkumeul kkueotdago malhaetda
Title translated by AI:“I Said I Had Dreamed”
Son Hong-kyu · 42 when first published
Short story · 320 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A young man in mourning clothes walks into a bar full of ageing thugs, and the men who watch him, among them a worn-out father whose family has scattered, are drawn back to the dreams they lost.
Yi Sang 2015 · Excellence prize
Baehoe
Title translated by AI:“Wandering”
Son Hong-kyu · 39 when first published
Short story
Yi Sang 2014 · Excellence prize
Gieogeul ireun jadeurui dosi
Title translated by AI:“City of Those Who Lost Their Memories”
Son Hong-kyu · 38 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:One day everyone in a city loses their memory, and a man, a woman and a girl who can no longer recognise one another begin to play the part of a family.
Yi Sang 2013 · Excellence prize
Baeuga doen noin
Title translated by AI:“The Old Man Who Became an Actor”
Son Hong-kyu · 37 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:In a park, a young man studying for a government job keeps running into a threadbare old gentleman on a bench, and comes to see his own old age in him.
Yi Sang 2010 · Excellence prize
Tumyeong ingan
Title translated by AI:“The Invisible Man”
Son Hong-kyu · 34 when first published
Short story
AI-generated summary:On the father's birthday, his family start a joke game of treating him as if he were invisible, and the prank begins to show how little they had seen him all along.