Lee Jangwook
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Lee Jangwook was born in Seoul. He made his literary debut in 1994 with a series of poems published in Hyundae Munhak. He began his career as a novelist in 2005 when he won the Munhak Soochup Writer's Award. He has authored six poetry collections, A Sand Heap in My Sleep, Song Request at Noon, Date of Birth, Possible Because It's not Forever, It's an Animal, What Is It?, Book of Music; four novels Delightful Devils of Callot, Stranger than Paradise, Carol, Burning Sea of June and Addicts; four collections of short stories: Emperor of Confession, Everything that is not a giraffe, Love of April March, Trotsky and the Wild Orchids; three literary critical essays, My Gloomy Modern Boy, Revolution and Modernism: Russian Poets and Aesthetics and Material Night of Soul.
