[3] Kyung-Sook Shin was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province in southern South Korea.

[4] She made her literary debut in 1985 with the novella Winter’s Fable after graduating from the Seoul Institute of the Arts as a creative writing major.

Along with Kim Insuk and Gong Ji-young, Kyung-Sook Shin is one of the group of female writers known as the 386 Generation.

Kyung-Sook Shin won the Munye Joongang New Author Prize for her novella Winter Fables.

[8] On June 16, 2015, The Huffington Post Korea reported that Kyung-Sook Shin had plagiarized Yukio Mishima's passage from the short story Patriotism in her book Legend.