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Kyung-sook Shin is the first woman to receive the prestigious Man Asian
Literary Prize
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One of South Korea's most influential writers has admitted to
plagiarizing a well-known Japanese author in a short story she published a
decade ago.
Shin Kyung-sook said in
an interview with the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper published Tuesday that she
will ask her publisher to remove the story "Legend" from future
editions of a compilation of short stories published in 1994.
A fellow South Korean novelist
said last week that a passage in "Legend" was similar to part of a
1961 short story by Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Shin's publisher initially
denied the allegations.
Shin won the 2011 Man Asian
Literary Prize for her internationally-acclaimed novel "Please Look After
Mom."
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