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Paik Gahuim Novelist South Korea
Paik Gahuim was born in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do in 1974 and studied Creative Writing at Myongji University. He made his publishing debut with the short story “Halibut” in the annual spring literary competition sponsored by The Seoul Shinmun. Since then, he has published a unique body of works, mixing the extreme psychological phenomenon and the unsettling reality of our time into ironies and fantasies. His first collection of short stories, Cricket Is Coming (2005), depicts through restrained language and structure the bizarre approaches to love and the dreary struggles that rely on extreme lives. Characters and events likely to appear in the city pages of newspapers are featured in his recent collection The Trunk of Deputy Manager Cho (2007), which include the stories “Welcome, Mommy!” about abandoned children and human trafficking, “Waiting Here Everyday,” about a homeless man and runaway teenager and “Welcome, Baby!” again about an abandoned infant. Many of his stories deal with the subject of bizarre and ironical tragedies, inherent with the twisted psychology of unfulfilled desire.
Participation Program
ⓒ LM. PALOMARES
ⓒ 박동희
Public Reading
ⓒ Emmanuel Bovet
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