2024-05-07 23:44:13
Writer Woo Il-yeon, a second-generation Korean American of American nationality
Non-fiction book ‘Master Slave Husband Wife’
The first Korean-American to win the award in the book category, not the media category.
Selection Committee “A grand journey toward freedom”
A non-fiction book by a Korean-American author won the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in the United States. Although a Korean figure has previously won an award in the journalism category, this is the first time that he has won the Pulitzer Prize in the book category.
The Pulitzer Prize selection committee announced on the 6th (local time) that it had decided that Korean-American author Woo Il-yeon, who wrote ‘Master Slave Husband Wife,’ would be a co-winner in the biography category. Artist Woo is a second-generation Korean of American nationality. His father is Gyu-seung Woo, an American architect who designed the Whanki Art Museum and the National Asia Culture Center. Author Woo received a bachelor’s degree in humanities from Yale University and a doctorate in English literature from Columbia University.
This book tells the true story of William and Ellen Craft, a black slave couple from the southern state of Georgia, who traveled to the northern United States in 1848 by disguising the wife as a sick, rich white man and the husband as his slave to escape from a slave plantation. In the work, the couple travels approximately 1,609 km (approximately 1,000 miles) in search of freedom by switching steamships, carriages, and trains to avoid the eyes of slave traders, military officers, and slave hunters. He eventually succeeded in escaping and moved to England, where he took the lead in abolishing slavery. The author explained on his website, “The work contains not only their (couple’s) love story, but also many other types of love, such as that of parents and children.”
The Pulitzer Prize, established in 1917, selects winners in the media categories, such as news and press photography, and in the arts categories, such as books, drama, and music. Although a Korean photojournalist has won the Pulitzer Prize in the journalism category, this is the first time that a Korean has won the award in the book, drama, and music categories.
The Pulitzer Prize selection committee described Woo’s work as “three epic journeys condensed into a monumental attempt at freedom, demanding answers to the core American principles of life, liberty, and justice for all.” evaluated.
Meanwhile, the Pulitzer Prize selection committee announced five reporters as winners in the public reporting category, including Joshua Kaplan of ProPublica, an American investigative reporting outlet who dug into the morality of U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Reporter Hojae Lee [email protected]
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