The writers ? Kim Wonil, Eun Hee Kyung and Sung Suk-je ? showed the variety of Korean literature today.
Kim Wonil, born in 1942, lived through the Korean war as a child and saw the country divided.
The girlish and always smiling Eun Hee Kyung looked not a day older than 35, but the brochure handed out at the reading put her over 50. Her first novel Bird?s Gift was written in just two months and quickly won one of Korea?s most important literary prizes.
Gábor Osváth, a college docent in Hungary, said the novel?s heroine, full of cynicism, irony and tragicomedy, is sure to have a positive effect on the reader.
Sung Suk-je, the youngest of the three, is a master of tales in which his heroes chose to live on the fringes of society. Tragedy and painful reality are mixed with a good dose of humour in his work, which is not without a moral.
Author: Éva Kelemen / Photo: Dániel Kováts
