In 2009 the French translation of her work A Lone Room, La Chambre solitaire, was one of the winners of the Prix de l'inaperçu, which recognizes excellent literary works which have not yet reached a wide audience. She 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. Kyung-Sook Shin won the Munye Joongang New Author Prize for her novella Winter Fables. Along with Kim Insuk and Gong Ji-young, Kyung-Sook Shin is one of the group of female writers known as the 386 Generation. She 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. She worked in an electronics plant while attending night school. At sixteen she moved to Seoul, where her older brother lived. She was the fourth child and oldest daughter of six. Kyung-Sook Shin was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province in southern South Korea. She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom. Kyung-Sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook ( Korean: 신경숙, born 12 January 1963), is a South Korean writer. In this Korean name, the family name is Shin.
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