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Kyung-Sook Shin


Korea (b.1963)

Kyung-sook Shin is the author of numerous works of fiction and is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been honored with the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, as well as France's Prix de l'Inaperçu. "Please Look After Mom" is her first book to appear in English.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
Novels
   Please Look After Mom (2011)
     aka Please Look After Mother
   I'll Be Right There (2014)
   The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness (2015)
   The Court Dancer (2018)
   Violets (2022)
   I Went To See My Father (2023)
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