Last month, Yun also published a new collection of short stories, translated as "A Club of Little Hearts" in English, which she had written since 2016. The short story won Yun the highly acclaimed Yi Sang Literary Award this year. The career-changing lesson was followed by her short story about marriage in 2018, which translates as "Their First and Second Cats."Ī young couple gives up their occupational ambitions and individual tastes to sustain their three-member family with a little son.Īs tensions over the couple's different visions of life come to a boiling point, they divorce each other as peacefully and tenderly as they fulfilled their marital duties. 7, 2019, after she won the 2019 Yi Sang Literary Award. This image shows novelist Yun I-hyeong during a press conference on Jan. Since then, whatever I wrote naturally became about women," the 43-year-old writer said. "(But the 2016 case) erased such consciousness, and I learned that such trivial episodes could make a better story. and I feared that my novels might be discounted as too private, frivolous or emotional," Yun said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency on Friday. "People used to say 'I don't wanna hear (read) about women's sentimental feelings'. Major #MeToo revelations against highly revered male authors around the same time keenly reminded Yun of her identity as a woman, awakening a feministic voice inside her. The ghastly case was a major moment of rebirth for novelist Yun I-hyeong as a female writer who, till then, unconsciously tried to keep her femininity from seeping into her literary works for fear of being bypassed for "feminine frivolousness." The random murder case, all at once, sparked an acute consciousness of the danger of being female, instigating many young women to take to the streets to mourn the death and protest. Hiding in a unisex public toilet adjoining a bar near the crowded Gangnam subway station, the assaulter in his 30s waited for 30 minutes while six men came and went before stabbing the first female toilet user to death. 28 (Yonhap) - The random murder of a 20-something woman by a schizophrenic man in the heart of Seoul in 2016 was a symbolic moment that awakened many young Korean women to the lethality of simmering misogyny.
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