Generally, a novel is said to be the product of the writer’s rich experience of life, ample knowledge, deep thinking and relentless quest for knowledge. So a fine literary work often reminds readers of at least a middle-aged and other senior person of high intelligence.
But Son Su Gyong (pictured), a worker at the Phyongwon County Foodstuff Factory, South Phyongan Province, is a 20-year-old woman. She won the top honour at the short story division of the national mass literary work prize contest which took place in celebration of the Day of the Shining Star last year.
“Her short story Small Cup was published in Chongnyon Munhak magazine, leaving many readers with a strong impression. It drew an encouraging response from the jury members and many literary enthusiasts as it gives so lifelike a portrayal of the people’s life in detail with true events as to surprise even professional writers,” said Son Yong Bok, a judge of the Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea.
A winner of several mass literary work prize contests, Son is affectionately called a “worker writer” by her villagers.
She liked to solve math problems not by existing formulae or methods, but by her own style from her childhood. She began to learn literature at a literature hobby group during her junior middle school days and has since written lots of children’s verses and songs.
She was highly appreciated several times in the provincial and national composition contests, which led to her win of an “Our Classroom” Literature Prize and two Youth Literature Prizes.
“Son Su Gyong has an inborn talent for literature,” said Kim Song Hui, Son’s literature teacher. “Son could receive professional education at the college, but she chose a working career, saying she wanted to have first-hand life experience at a factory.”
Son wrote short stories by reflecting her own experience and feelings at her leisure while working at the factory.
As they are thick with the pride of working life and vividly depict the beautiful life of the people, her products were carried by literary magazines in succession, and literature experts and enthusiasts lavished praise on them.
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