Kim Sagwa
{{short description|South Korean writer (born 1984)}}
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Kim Sagwa ({{Korean|hangul=김사과}}; born 1984) is a South Korean writer.
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Life
Kim Sagwa (the name is a pen name and means "apple" or "apology" in Korean) was born in 1984 in Seoul, South Korea, where she attended the Korean National University while studying Creative Writing.{{cite book|title=the Future of Silence|chapter=About the Authors|pages=185|author=Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton|publisher=Zephyr Press|location=Brookline, MA|year=2016|isbn=978-1938890178}} She graduated in 2009 after studying under mentors including Kim Young-ha (Your Empire is Calling You, The Photoshop Murder, Black Flower, etc.). By graduation she had already been honored with the 8th Creation and Criticism New Writers Award for her story "02", received a grant from the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation (Seoul), and published her first two novels, Mina (Mina, 2008) and P'ur i numnŭnda (The Grass Is Lying Down, 2009).{{cite web
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| title = Korean Modern Literature: Bio of Kim Sagwa
| last = Montgomery
| first = Charles
| date = 29 March 2016
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In addition to her fiction, Kim also writes columns in two Seoul newspapers, interviewed novelist Douglas Kennedy for Singles Magazine (South Korea), and was the co-translator into Korean of John Freeman's 2012 book How to Read a Novelist.
Kim has lived internationally in the recent past including stints in the City of New York and in 2016 was given a U.S. visa as an O-1 Alien of Extraordinary Ability in the Arts, granting her a three-year residency.{{cite web
| url =http://www.ktlit.com/korean-modern-literature-bio-of-kim-sagwa
| title = Korean Modern Literature: Bio of Kim Sagwa
| last = Montgomery
| first = Charles
| date = 29 March 2016
| website = www.ktlit.com
| publisher = KTLit
| access-date = 30 March 2016
| quote = }}
Career
Her first story was titled "02" (Yong’i) and for this work she was given the [http://en.changbi.com/changbi-prizes/changbi-prize-for-new-figures-in-literature/ Changbi New Writer's Prize], by the Ch'angjak kwa pip'yong publishing house. She has also written several other books including Mina (Mina, 2008), P’ul i numnunda (P’ul lies down, 2009), and T’ero ui shi (The Poetry of Terror, 2012). Kim is also the author of a book for young adults entitled, Na b Ch'aek (B and Chaek and Me, 2011).{{cite web |url= https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/azalea/v007/7.kim05.html|title= SF |website=muse.com |publisher= Muse |accessdate=28 March 2016}} In total she has written four novels and two short story collections. In 2016 "It's One of Those the More-I’m-in-Motion-the-Weirder-it-Gets Days and It’s Really Blowing My Mind" became her first work published in English in the collection The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women. This work was first published in Korean in Spring of 2010 by in the journal, Consonant and Vowel, and was placed on the short list for the Young Writer's Prize, given my [http://www.munhak.com/english/aboutus.asp Munhak Dongne Publishers].
Kim has been compared to Jack Kerouac. According to Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton (Her English translators), Kim is "attuned to the pathology of life in Seoul, reflected in the national abnormally low birth rate and unusually high rates if divorce and suicide. "It's One of Those the More-I'm-in-Motion-the-Weirder-it-Gets Days and It's Really Blowing My Mind" is one of the rare Korean works to explicitly confront psychosis and count a mental breakdown as the reason for a homicide."{{cite book|title=the Future of Silence|chapter= Preface|pages=xx|author=Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton|publisher=Zephyr Press|location=Brookline, MA|year=2016|isbn=978-1938890178}} It has also been called "brutal .., but nonetheless excellent reading.".{{cite web |url=http://www.ktlit.com/review-the-future-of-silence-fiction-by-korean-women/ |title=Review: "The Future of Silence, Fiction by Korean Women |author=Charles Montgomery |date=27 March 2016 |website=www.ktlit.com |publisher=KTLit |accessdate=20 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409185503/http://www.ktlit.com/review-the-future-of-silence-fiction-by-korean-women/ |archive-date=9 April 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Bibliography
=Works in translation=
- "It's One of Those the More-I'm-in-Motion-the-Weirder-it-Gets Days and It's Really Blowing My Mind" in The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women, trans. Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton
- "SF", trans. Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 7 (2014).
- Mina (Two Lines Press, 2018), translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton{{Cite web|url=https://www.catranslation.org/shop/book/mina/|title=Mina - World Literature in Translation {{!}} Center for the Art of Translation|website=www.catranslation.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-01}} {{ISBN|9781931883740}}
- B, Book, and me (Two Lines Press, 2020), translated by Sunny Jeong {{ISBN|9781931883962}}
=Works in Korean (partial)=
Short Stories
- 02 (Yong’i)
Novel Length
- In heaven ({{korean|labels=no|hangul=천국에서|mr=Ch'ŏn'gugesŏ}}; 2013) {{ISBN|9788936434069}}
- Mina ({{korean|labels=no|hangul=미나|mr=Mina}}; 2008) {{ISBN|9788936433611}}
- The grass lies down ({{korean|labels=no|hangul=풀이 눕는다|mr=P'uri numnŭnda}}; 2009) {{ISBN|9788954609456}}
- The Poetry of Terror ({{korean|labels=no|hangul=테러의 시|mr=T'erŏŭi si}}; 2012) {{ISBN|9788937484360}}
- B and Chaek and Me ({{korean|labels=no|hangul=나b책|mr=Na b ch'aek}}; 2011) {{ISBN|9788936456399}}
Awards
- Changbi New Writer's Prize
References
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External links
{{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160409185503/http://www.ktlit.com/review-the-future-of-silence-fiction-by-korean-women/ Review of "It’s One of Those the More-I'm-in-Motion-the-Weirder-it-Gets Days and It's Really Blowing My Mind" in The Future of Silence at KTLit.]
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