Shin Kyung-sook

1963 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: South Korea

native language: Korean

languages spoken, written or signed: Korean

educated at: Seoul Institute of the Arts

occupation: writer, novelist

award received: Manhae Prize, Ho-Am Prize in the Arts

position held: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

Kyung-Sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook (Korean: 신경숙, born 12 January 1963), is a South Korean writer. She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom. Source: Wikipedia (en)