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Title another name: 82년생 김지영
Article: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/03/07/koreatoo/
Journal: The New York Review of Books
Issued Date: February 07, 2019
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: New York
Book: -
Writer: Cho Nam-ju

About the Author

Cho Nam-ju
Birth : 1978 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Nam-ju
Family Name : Cho
Korean Name : 조남주
ISNI : 0000000460558831
Works : 67

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English(English)

82 nyeon saeng Kim Ji-young [Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982] In October 2016 the Korean publishing house Minumsa released a short novel called Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982, the latest in a series of works of fiction by “today’s young writers.” The author is a former television scriptwriter, Cho Nam-joo, born in 1978, who had published well-received short stories. She wrote the novel in two months, inspired by her favorite English-language writer, Rebecca Solnit, and maddened by the turns her own life had taken as a Korean woman and the treatment she faced as a new mother. One day, while taking a coffee break with her baby, she heard male passersby refer to her as 맘충, or “mom-worm,” a nasty epithet for mothers who have the gall to leave their homes.

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