Recipient of the 2025 Arts Council Korea Literature Fellowship
Kang Young-sook is a feminist South Korean author. She often writes about the female grotesque, delving into varying genres, such as urban noir, fantasy, and climate fiction. Since her debut in 1998, she has published a number of novels and short story collections, and has received many prestigious awards, such as the Hanguk Ilbo Literature Prize, Kim Yujeong Literary Award, and Lee Hyo-seok Literature Award, among others.
She participated in the International Writing Program’s fall residency at the University of Iowa in 2009, and was also a visiting writer-in-residence at UC Berkeley in 2014. In November 2019 she was writer in residence at Dragon Hall in Norwich.
Reference
Novels
1. Two Women of the Basin 분지의 두 여자(EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd., 은행나무2023)
2. Bunker X of Burim District 부림지구 벙커X (Changbi Publishers, Inc., 창비2020)
3. Tragicomic Miss Teletubby 슬프고유쾌한텔레토비소녀(MoonjiPublishingco.,Ltd.문학과지성사, 2013)
4. Writing Club 라이팅 클럽(Revised ed., Minumsa Publishing Group 민음사, 2020)
5. Writing Club 라이팅 클럽(Jaeum & Moeum Publishing, 자음과모음2010)
6. Rina 리나(Revised ed., Munhakdongne Publishing Corp.,문학동네2011)
7. Rina 리나(Random House Korea, 랜덤하우스코리아2006)
Short Story Collections
1. Things Left Behind 두고 온 것(Munhakdongne Publishing Corp.,문학동네2021)
2. Gray Documents 회색문헌(Moonji Publishing co., Ltd., 문학과지성사2016)
3. At Night He Lifts Weights 아령 하는 밤(Changbi Publishers, Inc., 창비2011)
4. Black in Red 빨강 속의 검정에 대하여(Munhakdongne Publishing Corp., 문학동네2009)
5. Every Day Is a Celebration 날마다 축제(Changbi Publishers, Inc., 창비2004)
6. Shaken 흔들리다(Munhakdongne Publishing Corp., 문학동네2002)
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