Bae Suah (Korean: 배수아; born 1965) is a South Korean author and translator. [2] Bae graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in chemistry. At the time of her debut in 1993, she was a government employee working behind the embarkation/disembarkation desk at Gimpo Airport in Incheon.

Bae Suah, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors, has published more than a dozen works and won several prestigious awards. She has also translated several books from the German, including works by W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, and Jenny Erpenbeck.

Bae Suah is one of the most highly acclaimed and innovative contemporary South Korean authors. Her novels ( Recitation , A Greater Music , Nowhere To Be Found ) and stories ( North Station , Highway with Green Apples , From Noin Ula ) are influenced by the German authors she translates – including Kafka, W G Sebald and Jenny Erpenbeck, but ...

Bae Suah — Though shaman faith developed in Korea too and has been passed down quite well-preserved, Korean shamanism has been pushed to the fringes of society over the course of the country’s modernisation.

Apr 20, 2013 · It’s 28-year-old Ayami’s final day at her box-office job in Seoul’s audio theater. Her night is spent walking the sweltering streets of the city with her former boss in search of Yeoni, their missing elderly friend, and her day is spent looking after a mysterious, visiting poet.

Apr 23, 2015 · Bae Suah is a Korean writer living in Germany whose books set in South Korea are finally being translated for English-language audiences.

Bae Suah has 16 books on Goodreads with 51235 ratings. Bae Suah’s most popular book is Untold Night and Day.

Bae Suah, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors, has published more than a dozen works and won several prestigious awards. She has also translated several books from the German, including works by W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, and Jenny Erpenbeck.

Bae Suah (born 1965) is a South Korean writer and translator. Life. Bae was born in Seoul and graduated from Ewha Womans University with a degree in Chemistry. She made her literary debut in 1993, publishing “Cheongubaekpalsibpalnyeonui eoduunbang” (천구백팔십팔년의 어두운 방 A Dark Room in 1988) in the quarterly Fiction and Philosophy.

Bae Suah made her literary debut in 1993 in the quarterly Fiction and Philosophy with “The Dark Room of Nineteen Eighty-Eight.” She is the author of the short story collection Highway with Green Apples, the novella Nowhere to Be Found, and the novels Sunday Sukiyaki Restaurant, A Greater Music, North Living Room, Recitation, and Untold ...