Kyung-sook Shin, Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook, is a South Korean writer.
10 Facts About Shin Kyung-sook
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Shin Kyung-sook was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom.
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Kyung-sook Shin was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province in southern South Korea.
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Shin Kyung-sook was the fourth child and oldest daughter of six.
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Shin Kyung-sook worked in an electronics plant while attending night school.
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Shin Kyung-sook made her literary debut in 1985 with the novella Winter's Fable after graduating from the Seoul Institute of the Arts as a creative writing major.
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Kyung-sook Shin won the Munye Joongang New Author Prize for her novella Winter Fables.
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Shin Kyung-sook has won a wide variety of literary prizes, including the Today's Young Artist Award from the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize; Hyundae Literature Award; Manhae Literature Prize; Dong-in Literary Award; Yi Sang Literary Award; and the Oh Yeongsu Literature Prize.
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Kyung-sook Shin won the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize for Please Look After Mom, the first woman to do so.
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On June 16,2015, The Huffington Post Korea reported that Kyung-sook Shin had plagiarized Yukio Mishima's passage from the short story Patriotism in her book Legend.