토지 박경리 선생님 동상

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Park Kyung-rin is a novelist who wrote the epic novel "Land." This work was written over 26 years and deeply explored the various fates of humans from different classes and their relationship to history throughout Korean modern and contemporary history. She was born in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang Province on October 28, 1926. After graduating from Jinju Girls' High School in 1945, she worked as a teacher at Yeonan Girls' Middle School in Hwanghae-do in 1950. In 1955, with the recommendation of Kim Dong-ri, she published her first short story "Calculation" and in 1956, her second short story "Black and White" was published in Modern Literature, making her debut in the literary world. From 1957, she began to actively engage in literary activities and published numerous works such as "Scissors," "The Age of Disbelief," "Remote Area," and others. In 1962, she published a novel "Daughters of Kim Yak-gu's Pharmacy" followed by other critically acclaimed works like "Market and Battlefield," "Pasi," and others, which criticized society and reality, beginning to draw attention from the literary world. Especially in 1969, she began writing "Land," which was completed in five volumes in 1994. This work explores the fates of humans from different classes throughout Korean modern and contemporary history and has been translated into English, Japanese, and French and received high praise. In 1957, Park Kyung-rin won the Modern Literature Newcomer Award, in 1965, she won the Korean Female Writer Literary Award, in 1972, she won the Wol-tan Literary Award, and in 1991, she won the Inchon Award. In 1999, she was selected as one of the artists who shone in the 20th century by the Korea Art Critics Association. Other notable works include "Butterfly and Eggplant," "Eternal Companion," "Single Layer," "Sunset Field," and others. She also published a poetry collection called "Ship That Won't Set Sail." In the Korean War, her husband was captured and she later married poet Kim Ji-ha. Park Kyung-rin passed away on May 5, 2008 due to lung cancer. Posthumously, in 2008, she was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit for Cultural Service.