Lee Seung-u
Lee Seung-u was born in Jangheung County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea on February 21st, 1960 and is the South Korean Writer. At the age of 64, Lee Seung-u biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In Portrait of Erysichton, In the Shadow of Thorny Bushes, and The Reverse Side of Life, Yi Seungu focuses on the notion of Christian redemption and how it intersects with human life, demonstrating how tension between heaven and earth are revealed in quotidian life. Other works, including A Conjecture Regarding Labyrinth and To the Outside of the World face up to disillusionment pursuant to the corruption and devaluation of language.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, the 2008 Nobel Laureate for Literature, has a deep affection for Korean literature. During his year-long stay in Korea as a visiting professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, he held book readings with Korean authors on several occasions. At the press conference after the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, he stated that “Korean literature is quite worthy of the Nobel Literature Prize,” and that “Personally, I would say that Lee Seung-u is one of the likely Korean candidates for the prize.”
Among Yi Seungu's works, only full-length novels have been translated into English and French, although he has published a great number of short story collections in the past three decades, due in part to the climate of the Korean literary world in which a writer's capacity is evaluated mostly through short stories published in literary journals.
- New Writer's Award, given by Korean Literature (1981)
- 1st Daesan Literary Award (1993)
- Dong-seo Literary Prize (2002)
- Lee Hyo-seok Literary Prize (2003)
- Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award (2007)
- Hwang Sun-won Literary Award (2010)
- Dong-in Literary Award (2013)
- Yi Sang Literary Award (2021)