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{{Short description|South Korean author (born 1982)}}
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'''Sou Linne Baik'''{{efn|This romanization is preferred by the author according to LTI Korea<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.klti.or.kr/node/31724|script-title=ko:백수린 {{!}} Digital Library of Korean Literature (LTI Korea)|website=library.klti.or.kr|language=en|access-date=2018-01-03}}</ref>}} ({{Korean|hangul=백수린}}; born 1982) is a female South Korean author.
==Early life==
Baik was born in 1982 in [[Incheon]], South Korea. She majored in French at [[Yonsei University]]. She graduated from [[Sogang University]] but still had the desire to write, and started to practice writing after that. She became a published author after being selected in the novel category of the 2010 ''[[Kyunghyang Shinmun]]'' Annual Spring Literary Contest.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201012311422155&code=960100#csidxea3a5eab4cf8e85aef240077d058a75|script-title=ko:소설 당선 소감 '인간에 대해 잘 이야기하는 작가 되고파'|trans-title=Reaction to novel being chosen for award: 'I want to become an author who can tell stories about people well'|newspaper=[[Kyunghyang Shinmun]]|date=31 December 2010|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref>
==Career==
Baik began writing novellas with ''Lying Practice'' ("거짓말 연습") and published a collection of short story novels in her book ''Falling in Paul'' ("폴링 인 폴"). She believes that she lacks skills as a writer because she is unlike many others who took all the steps to become a writer.
Baik's book ''Falling in Paul'' ({{Korean|hangul=폴링 인 폴|labels=no}}) is a collection of nine stories about issues of language and memory.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.joins.com/article/13909491|script-title=ko:언어·기억 문제로 벌어지는 일들, 백수린 '폴링 인 폴'|trans-title=Things that happened because of problems of language and memory: Baik Sou-linne's 'Falling in Paul'|newspaper=[[The JoongAng Ilbo]]|date=16 February 2014|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref> It portrays how we take in other people's desperate love stories as something typical and the writer also wants her readers to realize this.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} Another thing Baik discusses in this story is the romanization of the titular character Paul's Korean name Junchan, a name which Baik believes is difficult for foreign people to pronounce. Baik's point is that the pronunciation of the name will always be different from how Paul says it and how Koreans do.<ref name="Yonhap20140213">{{cite news|url=http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/culture/2014/02/13/0914010000AKR20140213098300005.HTML|author=신창용 [Sin Chang-yong]|script-title=ko:소설가 백수린 '진부한 얘기 새롭게 들려주고 싶어요'|trans-title=Novelist Baik Sou-linne: 'I want to tell old-fashioned stories in a new way'|agency=[[Yonhap]]|date=13 February 2014|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref>
Baik's work often depends on identity. The writer says that people see her writings as an art of traditional [[grammar]] and she wishes this writing style to get stronger in the future. She also wants to have her stories to be less packed in the future for she feels like there is too much words being said.  Lastly, she hopes that her readers will understand her intentions and meaning behind her books.
She is currently serializing a novel in the [[Hankyoreh]] newspaper.
In 2016, Baik's next book ''Terrible Light'' (unofficial name; 참담한 빛), a collection of ten short stories, was released by Changbi Publishers. The short stories therein deal with themes of past suffering and of emigrants living in foreign countries, and use intense light as a metaphor for exploration of suffering.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nocutnews.co.kr/news/4649900|script-title=ko:백수린 소설집 '참담한 빛'|trans-title=Baik Sou-linne's story collection 'Terrible Light'|work=[[No Cut News]]|date=4 September 2016|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/bulletin/2016/08/17/0200000000AKR20160817175400005.HTML|script-title=ko:소설가 백수린 '세상의 고통…내 방식으로 그리고 싶어요'|trans-title=Novelist Baik Sou-linne: 'Anguish in the world ... I wanted to deal with it in my own way'|agency=[[Yonhap]]|date=17 August 2016|access-date=11 October 2017|quote=특히 고통의 이미지를 빛과 어둠의 강렬한 대비로 보여주는 작품들이 눈에 띈다. 일반적인 메타포로 어둠이 고통을 은유하는 것과 달리 그의 작품에서는 강렬한 빛이 인물의 내면에 숨겨진 고통을 적나라하게 드러내는 장치로 사용된다.}}</ref> Some stories deal with public tragedies, such as "Summer Noon" ({{Korean|hangul=여름의 정오|labels=no}}) which touches on the [[Tokyo subway sarin attack]] and the [[September 11 attacks]], while others touch on private suffering which the author nevertheless connects to wider suffering in the world, such as "First Love" ({{Korean|hangul=첫사랑|labels=no}}) in which the first-person narrator goes to study abroad in Russia but then witnesses the school's decision to close the faculty and how the other students react.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cine21.com/news/view/?mag_id=85186|author=김수빈 [Kim Su-bin]|title={{bracket|도서}} 씨네21 추천 도서 <참담한 빛>|trans-title=Books: Cine 21 Book Recommendation 'Terrible Light'|magazine=Cine 21|date=20 September 2016|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref>
Baik has one work translated into English by Asia Publisher, titled "Time Difference" and was one of four featured speakers (along with [[Lee Ki-ho (writer)|Lee Ki-ho]], [[Lee Jang-wook]] and [[Geum Hee]]) at a bilingual author's roundtable in [[Myeongdong]], [[Seoul]] in December 2015 <ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ktlit.com/authors-hwang-jung-eun-yun-i-hyeong-cheon-myeong-kwan-qa-in-seoul-bilingual/ |title= Authors Hwang Jung-eun (황정은), Yun I-hyeong (윤이형), Cheon Myeong-kwan (천명관) Q&A in Seoul (bilingual) |last1= Montgomery |first1= Charles|date=  19 September 2015 |website= Korean Literature in Translation |access-date= 23 November 2015 }}</ref>
Baik's work has received praise from critics including professor {{ill|Kim Yun-shik|ko|김윤식 (평론가)}} of [[Seoul National University]].<ref name="Yonhap20140213"/>
==Works==
*{{cite book|script-title=ko:폴링 인 폴|trans-title=Falling in Paul|year=2014|publisher=Munhak Dongne|isbn=9788954623902|oclc=881319598}}
*{{cite book|script-title=ko:시차|trans-title=Time Difference|year=2015|publisher=Asia Publishers|isbn=9791156621256}}
*{{cite book|script-title=ko:참담한 빛|trans-title=Terrible Light|year=2016|publisher=Changbi Publishers|isbn=9788936437428|oclc=975764673}}
=== Works in translation ===
* {{cite book|translator=Jeon Miseli|title=Time Difference|publisher=Asia Publishers|year=2015|oclc=922007559}} (English)
==Awards==
*''[[Kyunghyang Sinmun]]'' Spring Literary Contest (2011, for "Lying Practice")
*Munhakdongne Young Writer Award (2015, for "Falling in Paul")
==Footnotes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.changbi.com/authors/3558?board_id=30 Author page] at Changbi Publishers
*An excerpt from one of Baik's short stories: {{cite news |script-title=ko:백수린 소설 높은 물때 |trans-title=Baik Sou Linne's story Very High Tide |url= http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/culture/culture_general/648758.html |language=ko |newspaper=[[The Hankyoreh]] |date=28 July 2014|access-date=18 December 2015}}
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