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Oh Soo-yeon Novelist South Korea
Oh Soo-yeon was born in 1964 in Seoul. She made her literary debut with the novel A National Holiday in Dwarf Country, for which she was named winner of the 1994 Comtemporary Literature Novel Competition. She published the story collection Empty House in 1997. After spending two years in India, she published Kitchen (2001), a collection of linked stories, in 2001 and received the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award for one of the stories in the book, “Glory on the Ground.” She visited Iraq and Palestine in 2003 as a representative for the Council of Korean Writers, which resulted in her non-fiction book Please Do Not Die, Abu Ali—A Record of the War in Iraq in 2004. In 2006, she edited and translated a collection of prose by contemporary Palestinian writers titled Tears of Palestine. As a member of the non-governmental organization ‘The Bridge Between Palestine and Korea'. She also edited a collection of essays exchanged between Palestinian and Korean writers in 2007 titled Conversations Between Palestine and Korea. She was the chairperson for the International Exchange Committee of the Council of the Korean Writers.
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Discussion My Inspiration
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