Kyung-sook Shin

Teaches at The Korea Society

Kyung-sook Shin, the author of eighteen works including seven novels, eight story collections, and three essay collections, is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed novelists. Her best seller,Please Look After Mom, sold more than two million copies in Korea, and has been translated into more than thirty languages and sold in 34 countries. She was both the first woman and the first Korean to be honored with the Man Asian Literary Prize. She is also the recipient of the Today’s Young Artist Award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize, Hyundae Literary Award, Manhae Literature Prize, Dong-in Literature Prize, Yi Sang Literary Award, the Oh Yeongsu Literature Prize, and France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu, as well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, awarded for her body of work for general achievement in Korean culture and the arts.