The 41st Shindongyeop Literary Award Winners: Dongwoo Lee and Juhye Lee

Poet Dongwoo Lee "Was Learning Each Other's Crying Sounds a Coincidence?"
Novelist Juhye Lee "The Name of That Cat Is Gilda"

Poet Dongwoo Lee and novelist Juhye Lee have been named the winners of the 41st Shindongyeop Literary Award. The organizer, Changbi Publishers, announced on the 10th that the two received the honor following the decision of the judging committee on July 19. The winning works are respectively "Was It a Coincidence That We Learned Each Other's Crying Sounds" and "The Name of That Cat Is Gilda." The prize money is 20 million won each, and the award ceremony is scheduled to be held at the end of November.

Poet Dongwoo Lee [Photo by Changbi]

Poet Dongwoo Lee began his literary career by receiving the Jeon Tae-il Literary Award in 2015. His representative work is the poetry collection "Was It a Coincidence That We Learned Each Other's Crying Sounds," which won this award.

Novelist Lee Joo-hye Photo by Changbi

Novelist Juhye Lee started her literary activities by winning the Changbi New Writer's Award in 2016. She has published collections of short stories such as "The Name of That Cat Is Gilda" and "The Place of Nu," as well as the novel "Jadu."

The judging panel stated, "We have gladly agreed to select Dongwoo Lee's poetry collection, which covers a wide range from historical events to civilizational concerns and focuses on the painful lives of vulnerable beings, and Juhye Lee's short story collection, which sharply explores the realities of women in our society through rigorous thought and finely honed language, as the winning works of the 41st Shindongyeop Literary Award."

The Shindongyeop Literary Award was jointly established by the family of poet Shindongyeop and Changbi to honor the poet's literature and spirit. It targets writers who have been active for less than 10 years and have conducted literary activities in Korean within the past two years.

On the same day, Changbi also announced the 2023 Changbi New Writer's Awards. In the poetry category (23rd), Lee Hayoon, author of "Coat and Light," was selected, and in the criticism category (30th), Kwon Youngbin, who discussed novelist Choi Jinyoung's "Proof of the District," was chosen. The Changbi New Novelist Award (26th) was not awarded. The prize money is 5 million won each. The winning works and judges' comments will be published in the fall issue of "Changjakgwa Bipyeong."

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