Mirinae Lee, the creator of “8 Lives of a Century-Outdated Trickster” / Courtesy of Mirinae Lee
Mirinae Lee has gained the William Saroyan Worldwide Prize for Writing, a prestigious U.S. guide award for rising writers, turning into the primary Korean nationwide to realize the feat.
“8 Lives of a Century-Outdated Trickster,” a novel by Lee revealed final yr, gained the biennial award administered by Stanford College Libraries and the William Saroyan Basis, together with “Orphan Bachelors,” a memoir by Chinese language American creator Fae Myenne Ng.
Impressed by the true story of Lee’s nice aunt, who escaped alone from North Korea, her novel facilities round tales of life within the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea.
“Lee’s characters are so fascinating and sophisticated that the necessity to decipher them and unravel their mysteries generates sudden suspense and a need to hurry towards the solutions, however her lyrical and evocative prose concurrently calls for a sluggish savoring of every web page,” judges of the Saroyan Prize fiction stated.
The duvet of “8 Lives of the Century-Outdated Trickster” by Mirinae Lee / Courtesy of HarperCollins
They referred to as Lee’s guide “a fantastically complicated story of human frailty and energy.”
Lee, who’s at present primarily based in Hong Kong, completed her elementary, center and highschool training in Korea earlier than shifting to america to check English literature in faculty.
She has beforehand revealed quick fiction in a number of notable literary periodicals earlier than writing her first lengthy fiction, “8 Lives of a Century-Outdated Trickster.” (Yonhap)
