Kyung-Sook Shin

Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer best known for Please Look After Mom, a novel about a family searching for their mother after she vanishes in a crowded subway station. In 2012 she became the only South Korean and the only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize, which she received for that book. Her other novels include Violets, a coming-of-age story, I'll Be Right There, and the historical novel The Court Dancer.