Lit in Translation

Yun Ko-eun

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Born 1980 · South Korea

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Books on prize lists

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    Yi Sang 2017 · Excellence prize

    부루마블에 평양이 있다면

    Burumabeure Pyeongyangi itdamyeon

    Title translated by AI:“If There Were Pyongyang on the Blue Marble Board”

    Yun Ko-eun · 36 when first published

    Short story · Satire, Politics

    AI-generated summary:In a South Korea preparing for unification, buyers sign up for flats in North Korean apartment blocks that do not yet exist, touring show homes in Yongin and on the banks of the Han.

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    Yi Sang 2014 · Excellence prize

    프레디의 사생아

    Peurediui sasaenga

    Title translated by AI:“Freddie's Bastard”

    Yun Ko-eun · 33 when first published

    Short story

    AI-generated summary:A tenant who happens to rent the house where Freddie Mercury once lived turns it into an exhibition, filling the rooms with fake belongings of the singer.