Jo Kyung-ran
Jo Kyung Ran (born 1969 in Seoul) is a South Korean author. She is considered one of the most important representatives of contemporary literary production in South Korea.
Life
After graduating from high school she lived until the age of 25 retired from the world at home, before she began a degree in creative writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts and in 1996 with "French optician shop" ( bullanseo angyeongwon ) debuted. In the same year as her first novel, "Time to toast baking" ( sikppang gumneun sigan ) was awarded the first Munhak - Dongnae Prize for New Writers. This badge has been awarded this year for the first time.
Jo Kyung- ran's works are characterized by a very sensitive kind literary powers of observation and imagination. Mainly focuses on the author, the isolation and loneliness in modern, urbanized society, the demolition of interpersonal relationships and the alienation of his own family. It is bordered by the fact clear from the older generation of Korean writers and their themes of division and past history of the country from.
Appeared on German are her novels "Time to toast baking" and " Fine food " and her short story collection "How the elephant comes into my bedroom? " And their individual narratives " My purple sofa" in the story collection " Assembled Lights" and "French optician shop" in band " A simple dotted dress " as part of Edition modern Korean authors of Pendragon Verlag Bielefeld.
Works
Translations
German
- My purple sofa in Assembled lights, Pendragon, (2002) ISBN 978-3934872349
- As the elephant comes into my bedroom?, Pendragon, (2003) ISBN 978-3934872585
- French optician's shop in an easy- dotted dress, Pendragon, (2004) ISBN 978-3934872578
- Time to toast bake, Pendragon, (2005) ISBN 978-3865320179
- Fine food, Luchterhand Collection, (2010) ISBN 978-3630621852
English
- Tongue, Bloomsbury, (2009) ISBN 978-1596916517
- I live in Bongcheon -dong, ASIA Publishers, (2013 ) ISBN 978-8994006970
- Mise en bouche, Philippe Rey, (2010) ISBN 978-2848761619