Bae Suah | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea [1] |
| Occupation | Author, translator |
| Language | Korean, German |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Genre | Fiction |
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| Bae Suah | |
| Hangul | 배수아 |
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| Revised Romanization | Bae Sua |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pae Sua |
Bae Suah (born 1965) is a South Korean author and translator. [2]
Bae graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in chemistry. At the time of her debut in 1993, she was a government employee working behind the embarkation/disembarkation desk at Gimpo Airport in Incheon. Without formal instruction or guidance from a literary mentor, Bae wrote stories as a hobby. [3] But it wasn't long before she left her stultifying job to become one of the most daringly unconventional writers to grace the Korean literary establishment in modern years. [4]
She made her debut as a writer with "A Dark Room in 1988" in 1993. Bae stayed in Germany for 11 months between 2001 and 2002, where she began learning German. [5]
She edits contents in literary magazine Axt since 2015.
Bae has departed from the tradition of mainstream literature and created her own literary world based on a unique style and knack for psychological description. [6]
Bae made her debut as a writer with "A Dark Room" in 1993. Since then, she has published two anthologies of short fiction, including the novella Highway With Green Apples. She has also published novels, including Rhapsody in Blue. [7] Her work is regarded as unconventional in the extreme, including such unusual topics as men becoming victims of domestic violence by their female spouses (in “Sunday at the Sukiyaki Restaurant”). [8] characterized by tense-shifting and alterations in perspective. Her most recent works are nearly a-fictional, decrying characterization and plot. [9]
Bae is known for her use of abrupt shifts in tense and perspective, sensitive yet straightforward expressions, and seemingly non sequitur sentences to unsettle and distance her readers. Bae's works offer neither the reassurance of moral conventions upheld, nor the consolation of adversities rendered meaningful. Most of her characters harbor traumatic memories from which they may never fully emerge, and their families, shown to be in various stages of disintegration, only add to the sense of loneliness and gloom dominating their lives. A conversation between friends shatters the idealized vision of love; verbal abuse constitutes a family interaction; and masochistic self-loathing fills internal monologues. The author's own attitude toward the world and the characters she has created is sardonic at best. [10]
• Dongseo Literary Prize, 2004
• Hankook Ilbo Literary Prize, 2003
• Writer in Residence in Zürich, 2018 [14]
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