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Heinz Insu Fenkl

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Bupyeong, Korea, Republic of

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Genre

Short Stories, Fiction, Translation

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Heinz Insu Fenkl, born in 1960 in Bupyeong, Korea, is a novelist, translator, and editor. Fenkl is a professor of English and the director of the Interstitial Studies Institute at SUNY New Paltz.

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 prose translation, Yi Mun-yol's short story, "An Anonymous Island," was published in the The New Yorker—the first Korean fiction to appear in that publication. Fenkl was 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 The Nine Cloud Drea ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 2,356 ratings · 433 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Skull Water 3.51 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Korean Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends by Heinz Insu Fenkl, Bella Dalton-Fenkl 3.67 avg rating — 275 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories of My Ghost Brother 3.75 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction by Heinz Insu Fenkl, Walter K. Lew (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Korean Folktales: In the Old, Old Days, When Tigers Smoked Tobacco Pipes 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cathay: Translations and Transformations 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Os mitos coreanos: Um guia para deuses, heróis e lendas (Série Mitos) by Heinz Insu Fenkl, Bella Myong-wol Dalton-Fenkl, Caesar Souza (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mimosa Sector: A novella of the near future, in 3 parts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The woman untied her pojagi and removed a small bag and a small bundle wrapped in a scarf. She headed to the station house, taking small staccato steps like a Japanese woman in a kimono. How habits stick with us, he thought. They seep into our bodies until we don't even recognize them as having come from outside ourselves. Everything inside at one time outside”
― Heinz Insu Fenkl, Skull Water

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“That is the greatest part of our ignorance, because even when we believe we know the causes and conditions of things, our knowledge is limited.”
― Heinz Insu Fenkl, Skull Water

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“The truth is never what you thought it was, but when you learn it, it changes everything forever.”
― Heinz Insu Fenkl, Skull Water

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