I'll Be Right There (35 page)

KYUNG-SOOK SHIN, the author of seventeen books, is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed writers. Her best seller
Please Look After Mom
has been translated into more than thirty languages. She has been honored with the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Manhae Prize, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu, as well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, awarded for her body of work for general achievement in Korean culture and the arts.

SORA KIM-RUSSELL is a literary translator based in Seoul. Her translations and writings have appeared in
Words Without Borders, Azalea: A Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, Drunken Boat, Pebble Lake Review, The Diagram
, and other publications. She teaches at Ewha Womans University.