Diane Lee | |
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| Born | August 18, 1974 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | autobiographical novel |
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Diane Lee (Korean nameː Lee Bong-ju, Canadian nameː Diane Shoar; born August 18, 1974) is a Korean-Canadian novelist. Born in Daegu, South Korea, she moved to Vancouver, Canada in 2001.
She debuted as a novelist in 2019, winning the Segye World Literature Award for <Roya>. "Diane Lee is the first Korean-foreigner to make her debut in the Korean literature by writing in Korean," it said. "It is meaningful in that it expanded the scope of Korean literature in the global era." <Roya> was praised as "a work that proves the novel as a language art, with meticulous sentences that make it impossible to skip a single sentence and tense narratives that reproduce psychological reality."
Currently on the board of directors at Vancouver Chamber Music Society[1]
Works
edit- 《Roya》ISBN 9791161570532
- 《Juya》ISBN 9791161570839
Academic background
edit- Graduate work in German Studies University of British Columbia
- Graduate work in Universität Bonn
- Seoul National University, Master of Arts
Awards
edit- The 15th World Literature Award, 2019
Notes
edit- ^ "보관된 사본". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
[[Category:Canadian novelists]] [[Category:South Korean expatriates in Canada]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1974 births]]