Korean-American writer Woo Il Yon won the Pulitzer Prize, the nation's most prestigious, for her book, Master Slave Husband Wife, on the 6th.
She earned a bachelor's and doctorate in humanities from Yale and a doctorate in English from Columbia University, where she was first introduced to the story of Mr. and Mrs. Craft. Crafts.
It is the first time that a Korean figure has won in the book, drama, and music category, and the book was selected as one of the 10 Books of the Year by the New York Times last year.
The book is the story of a slave couple in the 19th century, and it tells the true story of a Craft couple who escaped from Georgia in the southern U.S. by disguising themselves as farm owners and slaves to the northern U.S.
Meanwhile, the Pulitzer Prize was established in 1918 by the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is awarded to those who have achieved achievements in American newspapers, magazines, online journalism, literature, and composition.
Sayart / Nao Yim, yimnao@naver.com
