kang seuk kyong et al / 강석경 et al / 1989 / -

The universal topics of life, death, love, hate, sex, loss of innocence, and other themes, are explored in fiction by 3 Korean writers   source: https://www.bookdepository.com/Words-Farewell-Kang-Sok-Kyong/9780931188763

Kim Chiwon et al / 김지원 et al / 1997 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999

Eight stories by Korean writers. In The Last of Hanak O, the male narrator muses on why he is both drawn to and frightened by a college girlfriend, in Almaden, a Korean immigrant to New York tries to understand her obsession with a customer to her liquor store, and Scarlet Fingernails is on a family's reaction to a Communist defector.     https://www.worldcat.org/title/wayfarer-new-fiction-by-korean-women/oclc/35822519&referer=brief_results

OH JUNGHEE et al / 오정희 et al / 2016 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999

Spanning almost half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (from the 1970s to the present), The Future of Silence brings together some of the most accomplished twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work takes us into the homes, families, lives, and psyches of Korean women, men, and children. Pak Wan-sŏ, at the time of her passing the elder stateswoman of contemporary Korean fiction, opens the door into two “Identical Apartments” where neighbors, bound as much by competition as friendship, struggle to “keep up with the Kims” as they transition from life in an extended family to a new nuclear-family lifestyle in a sterile apartment complex. O Chŏng-hŭi, who has been compared to Joyce Carol Oates and Alice Munro, examines a day in the life of a woman recently released from a mental institution, while younger writers, such as Kim Sagwa, Han Yujoo, and Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng explore psychosis, literary experimentation, and bi-racial childhood. These stories will sometimes disturb and sometimes delight, as they illuminate complex issues in Korean life and literature. Internationally acclaimed translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton have won several awards and fellowships for the numerous works of modern Korean fiction they have translated into English.   Source: http://www.zephyrpress.org/new.php#futuresilence

Kim Chae-Won et al / 김채원 et al / 1995 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999

This collection contains translations of the works that were read in a research society by Korean literature scholars in Japan at the time. It features works by Korean female writers, such as Park Wansuh, Oh Junghee, and Shin Kyung-Sook. According to the editor Toshikatsu Saegusa, the selection process aimed at spotlighting works that “well represented contemporary trends,” culminating in the birth of this anthology of works by female Korean writers.