Heinz Insu Fenkl
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Heinz Insu Fenkl

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Heinz Insu Fenkl, born in 1960 in Bupyeong, Korea, is a novelist, translator, and editor. His most recent short story, “Five Arrows,” was published in The New Yorker. His autobiographical novel, "Memories of My Ghost Brother," was named a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection in 1996 and a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist in 1997, and his most recent prose translations, Yi Mun-yol's "An Anonymous Island" and "Snowy Day," the latter by the renowned film director Lee Chang-dong (co-translated with Yoosup Chang), were published in The New Yorker. Fenkl was the guest editor for the special section on North Korea in the journal "AZALEA," published by Harvard’s Korea Institute. His translation of the classic 17th-century Korean Buddhist novel "Kuunmong (The Nine Cloud Dream)" by Kim Man-jung (Penguin Classics) was published in 2019. His most recent novel, "Skull Water," was published 2023 by Spiegel & Grau. He teaches Creative Writing and Asian Studies courses at the State University of New York, New Paltz.
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