Eun Mihee Explained

Mihee Eun (Eun, Mihee)
Birth Date:1960 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, South Korea
Spouse:Single
Alma Mater:Gwangju University
Nationality:South Korean
Notableworks:People in Columbarium
Minority's Love
Song of the Wind
Ten Thousand and Two Brewing Women
The First Experience at 18
Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly
Occupation:Novelist, essayist, college lecturer, columnist
Korean name
Hangul:은미희
Hanja:殷美姬
Rr:Eun Mihui
Mr:Ŭn Mihŭi

Eun, Mihee (Korean: 은미희; born on September 20, 1960) is a South Korean novelist, writer, columnist, and a college lecturer.[1] She was born in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province in southern South Korea and moved to Gwangju at 3 years old and grew up there. She was a radio actress at Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation in Gwangju in her early 20s and became a journalist at Jeonnam Maeil newspaper later. While working as a journalist, she realized that she really wanted to be a novelist. She started her work as a novelist and she won first prize the Jeonnam Ilbo Literature Award for the short novel What Kind of Silkworm's Dream in Cocoon in 1996. After that, she won the Munhwa Ilbo Literature Award in 1999 for another short novel: Bird Fly Again.

She received the Samsung Literature Award in 2001 for People in Columbarium, which is a novel of poor peoples' lives at an inn in a small town.[2] Her novel Minority's Love received a good review. It depicted the unique and serious introspection about life in the shadow of the past as dealing with the dark side of love and life such as love between relatives and the same sex, which were contradicted, and not allowed socially. When she released the Song of the Wind based on interviews with strolling candy-selling entertainers that can be called as modern strolling-actors, she received sincere attention from the media about her literary skill — revealing the people's characters while describing the joys and sorrows of their lives.

Her first collection of short stories, Ten Thousand and Two Brewing Women, received compliments because she expressed the nobility of life in detail through people lead lonely daily lives. Her other her novels are The First Experience at 18, Wind Man Tree Woman, John Paul II, etc.[3]

Early life

Eun was born in a small town as the fourth child and the third daughter of five. Her father was an art teacher at a high school who had three individual exhibitions and several group exhibitions as a member of Hwangto-Group. Mihee had a talent in painting like her father and received awards during elementary and middle school. However, she gave up her dream to be a painter because her father did not want her to be an artist.[4]

She started to develop her writing skill when she was in high school and received an award in a national writing contest. She got admission to Seokang Technology Institute but needed to drop out. Her oldest sister attended a graduate school and her older sister studied at an art college, so her family was not able to support her financially. In May 1980, she experienced serious panic condition when watching the Gwangju Democratization People's Uprising.[5] Many innocent people's deaths and violence done by soldiers made her look at life as vain.[6]

Career

Eun enrolled at Korea National Open University. She got a job at Gwangju Munhwa Broadcasting Co. the following year, but she was not satisfied with it. At the age of 30, she decided to concentrate on writing a novel. Six years later, she received the Jeonnam Ilbo Literature Award for her short novel, What Kind of Silkworm's Dream in Cocoon, in 1996[7] and the ‘Munhwa Ilbo Literature Award in 1999 for another short novel, Bird Fly Again.[8] She turned into a professional novelist.[9] However, she destroyed her award plaques in 2000 and said,

Her debut as a novelist was later than compared to her peer writers. She recalled that her family had a hard time due to her brother's constant business failures. Nevertheless, she mentioned that watching the Gwangju Uprising, experiencing financially hard times, and not receiving enough education gave her nourishment for life. When she decided to continue her study, she enrolled at Gwangju University in 1999 and got a master's degree from the school in 2010. After that, she started a Ph.D. course at Korean Teacher Department at Dongshin University in 2016. She has pursued her degree and has taught creative writing at Saengoji University[10] and screenwriting at the department of Broadcasting Entertainment at Dongshin University.

Written works

Broadcasting works

Columns

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 은미희 Digital Library of Korean Literature (LTI Korea). library.klti.or.kr. en. 2017-11-08.
  2. News: [문학]삼성문학상 수상자 3명 선정]. 2001-08-20. 동아닷컴. 2017-11-08. ko.
  3. Web site: Amazon.co.uk: Eun Mihee: Books. www.amazon.co.uk. 2017-11-08.
  4. http://www.yes24.com/24/AuthorFile/Author/120919 작가소개 은미희
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzoC_FZpJ0Q 우리는 역사에서 무엇을 배울 것인가_은미희
  6. http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=200506141740121&code=960205 은미희 장편소설 ‘바람의 노래’
  7. http://www.jndn.com/article.php?aid=1410447600183366072 문화도시 예술의별-소설가 은 미 희
  8. http://www.kyobobook.co.kr/author/info/AuthorInfoNew.laf?mallGb=KAU&authorid=1000430801&orderClick=SPV 은미희
  9. http://news.donga.com/3/all/20011008/7745423/1 '비둘기집 사람들'로 문학상 탄 은미희씨 인터뷰
  10. Web site: Open ‘Saengoji University’ at Gwangju . 28 March 2016 . 7 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160407125434/http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/area/674323.html . dead .
  11. News: 문화도시 예술의별-소설가 은 미 희. jndn.com. 2017-11-08. ko.
  12. Web site: 은미희 작가 & 작품 - 인터넷교보문고. www.kyobobook.co.kr. ko. 2017-11-08.
  13. News: 올 삼성문학상 수상자 선정. 2001-08-28. JoongAng Ilbo. 2017-11-08. ko-KR.
  14. News: 퀴어문학리스트_국내 - 소수의 사랑 / 은미희. 2015-05-12. 2017-11-08. ko-KR.
  15. News: 은미희 장편소설 '바람의 노래'. 2017-11-08. ko.
  16. Book: Mihee, Eun. Song of the wind. 2005. unknown. 9788974562755. Seoul.
  17. News: 가슴 한켠에 맴도는 쓸쓸한 노래‥은미희씨 '만두 빚는 여자' 출간. 2006-01-18. The Korea Economic Daily. 2017-11-08. ko.
  18. Book: Mihee, Eun. Ten thousand and two brewing Women. 2006. Lee Rum. 9788957071953. 서울시.
  19. News: '철없는 부모'보다 먼저 '철든' 18세 소녀. 2006-06-22. 2017-11-08. ko.
  20. Web site: 18岁的初体验 . 30 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120306105051/http://www.shuku.net:8080/novels/dangdai/shibasuidecyy/shibasuidecyy.html . 6 March 2012 . dead .
  21. News: 나를 잃다 – 사이버문학광장 문장 웹진. 2017-11-08. ko-KR. 9 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160409015103/http://webzine.munjang.or.kr/archives/4378. dead.
  22. News: [새로나온 책] 바람남자 나무여자 외]. 2017-11-08. ko. https://web.archive.org/web/20160407193459/http://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/04/13/2007041300783.html. 7 April 2016. dead.
  23. Book: Mihee, Eun. Wind male tree woman. 2007. unknown. 9788925507651. 서울시.
  24. News: 창조와 파괴의 여신 카미유클로델 리뷰. https://archive.today/20160403053356/http://jinnartistory.tistory.com/entry/%EC%B0%BD%EC%A1%B0%EC%99%80-%ED%8C%8C%EA%B4%B4%EC%9D%98-%EC%97%AC%EC%8B%A0-%EC%B9%B4%EB%AF%B8%EC%9C%A0%ED%81%B4%EB%A1%9C%EB%8D%B8-%EB%A6%AC%EB%B7%B0. dead. 3 April 2016. 2013-04-04. Jinn's Inside. 2017-11-08.
  25. Book: 차, 현숙. 2 와 2분 의 1. 2008. 문학 의 문학. 9788943103507. ko.
  26. Book: 은, 미희. 인당수에 빠진 심청(교과서에서 쏙쏙 뽑은 우리고전 8). 2008-09-15. 생각의나무. 9788984988835. ko.
  27. News: 조선의 여류 시인 '옥봉' 사랑과 시 둘다 가질 수 있다면. 2017-11-08. ko.
  28. News: 중국어로 번역 출간된 은미희씨의 소설 '18세, 첫 경험' 18岁的初体验. 7 March 2018. 8 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180308042525/http://m.blog.daum.net/gsj2020/12418083. dead.
  29. Web site: 이토히로부미 양녀, 조선인이면서 조선을 증오의 땅으로 여겼던 역적 - ENS. www.vop.co.kr. 2017-11-08.
  30. Book: Mihee, Eun. Black skirt Sadako. 2011. Ja Eumgwamoeum. 9788957075791.
  31. News: '쉿!' 이브들의 아찔한 수다… 여성 작가 6명, 섹스를 정면으로 다룬 단편 모아 출간. 2012-05-31. 동아닷컴. 2017-11-08. ko.
  32. Book: Mihee, Eun. Pope John Paul II. 2012. unknown. 9788957076675.
  33. Book: Mihee, Eun. Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly. 2017-09-14. Dorrance Publishing Company. 978-1-4809-4114-4 . en.
  34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61_KXXelkI8 80518 – 5.18 Democratic uprising South Korea 1/4
  35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a9nHzwfTPY 80518 – 5.18 Democratic uprising South Korea 2/4
  36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CTeMBvjaWc 80518 – 5.18 Democratic uprising South Korea 3/4
  37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TrqcTpmRJc 80518 – 5.18 Democratic uprising South Korea 4/4
  38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dXuYS_9CE Gwangju Story of Yellow-Rose 80518
  39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkml6tN_6nY 1. How I Started Writing “Flutter Flutter Butterfly
  40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX-Hal_Wjaw 2. The Recurrent Questions I Had Writing the Book
  41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whJofPhPyLY 3. The Main Contents and Plot of the Book
  42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9o_ceo3hY&t=56s 4. The Lives of the Victimized Women: After the Lives as “Comfort Women”
  43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waWiFvA0BEQ&t=4s 5. The Things We Have to Keep on Dreaming About”
  44. http://m.segye.com/view/20171031004991 Accompanied with Mihee Eun
  45. http://m.cnews.co.kr/m_home/view.jsp?idxno=201803061755230000483 Window of mind
  46. Web site: Live and think . 29 March 2016 . 11 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160411061210/http://www.munhwa.com/news/series.html?secode=590&page=3 . dead .
  47. Web site: Blue Square-Eun Mihee . 29 March 2016 . 10 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160410190111/http://www.munhwa.com/news/series.html?secode=1730 . dead .
  48. http://lady.khan.co.kr/khlady.html?mode=view&code=11&artid=12588 Love, what are you?
  49. http://www.namdonews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=18087 Gwangju novelist Eun Mihee's Transform
  50. Web site: Samsung Social Contribution White Paper, p9,34,67,70,138,177 . 29 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160531173322/http://www.samsunglove.co.kr/pdfWhiteBook/WhiteBook_2001.pdf . 31 May 2016 . dead .

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