Yang Gui-ja
Yang Gui -ja ( born July 17, 1955 in Jeonju in Jeollabuk ) is a South Korean writer.
Life
Yang Gui -ja was born in 1955 as the sister of five older brothers and a younger sister. " In the village we were called, son rich ' family. Five strong guys one after the other and thereafter as established two daughters. "(From The Summit Hankairyung ).
1960 his father died, which is why the eldest brother had to take over the task of providing for the livelihood of the large family. My sense of guilt over the oldest brother expresses itself in the short story The Summit Hankairyung. The critic Hong Jeong- seon pointed out that deep Gui -ja the thoughtful shame worked in the stories of Yang about her life, just as the desire for reparations to the oldest brother.
1967 visited Yang Gui -ja high school, spent the most time in the library and read novels. In 1970 she went to high school, participated in various literary competitions and began to write ambitious. In 1974 she was selected as a scholarship for a study of literature at the University of Wonkwang in Iksan. After graduating in 1978, she was Koreanischlehrerin and joined the Honam High School in the city Jeongju. But after a month, she stepped back, applied for Keumsang High School, which was located on a small island. In May 1980, she debuted with her two narratives New incipient morning and closed the door in the literary magazine Munhak Sasang. In 1980 she gave up her job as a teacher on, got married and moved to the Seoul Vorstadtort Wonmidong. In 1981, she wrote short stories and finally published in 1985 her first anthology in 1987 The people of Wonmidong. The serial stories received great response, and Yang Gui -ja was one of the most representative authors of the 80s. After this success, she published The Way to Cheonmachong. In this productive time they left the district Wonmidong, where she had lived for ten years and moved to Gugidong, Seoul has to offer. Her novel I wish that what is forbidden led to feminism dispute and was filmed. For the story The hidden flower which she published in the same year, she received the 16 Yi Sang Literature Prize. In 1993 she published the third anthology of mourning is also power. Then she focused on novels. She stressed the need to change the Writers consciousness, to respond to the changing times and called for the direct communication with the readers. Moreover, they argued, literature should leave the elitist attitude fall and recover their actual substance, the narrative and emotion. The novel published in 1995 Millennial love became a bestseller, as the novel was The contradiction (1998) a great success with the public.
Working
Collections of short stories
- 귀머거리 새 ( The dove bird) Minum 1985
- 원미동 사람들 ( The people of Wonmidong ) Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa 1987
- 슬픔 도 힘 이 된다 ( mourning will also force) Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa 1993
Novels
- 희망 (Hope) Salim 1990
- 나는 소망 한다 내게 금지 된 것을 ( I wish that what is forbidden ) Salim 1992
- 천년 의 사랑 ( Thousand Year Love) Salim 1995
- 모순 ( The opposition ) Salim 1998
Translations
German
- The people of Wonmidong Bielefeld: Pendragon Pendragon Verlag 2000 ISBN 978-3929096750
- Hope EOS Verlag 2002 ISBN 3830671261
English
- A distant and beautiful place Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003
- Contraditions Cornell Univ. East Asia Program, 2005
- Rust Seoul: Jimoondang Publishing Company