Originally a student of fine arts, Kang Sok-kyong stumbled into a literary career quite accidentally when she entered a creative writing contest to raise tuition for graduate studies in sculpture and art criticism. Her talent was unmistakable from the beginning, and for more than thirty years since her debut, she has remained a respected writer. Kang has focused on the search for the self in her fiction. Kang recognizes that life is filled with diverging roads and attendant dilemmas, which allow us a glimpse into our true selves. Many of her works also concern the inhumanity she finds within Korean society.
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