고마워, 로이터 'Toji'
[뉴시스]서울 아산병원에 마련된 고 박경리 선생의 빈소에 조문객들의 발길이 이어지고 있다.
'한국 문단의 거목 박경리 지다'란 제목의 로이터통신 기사가 6일 11시20분쯤 전 세계에 뿌려졌군요.
한국 문학작품의 번역 소개도 중요하지만 작가의 근황과 생사도 그에 못지 않게 중요할 것이라는 생각입니다.
이번 로이터의 기사는 소설 '토지'에 대한 설명과 박씨의 문학 활동, 사후 금관문화훈장 추서 등을 실었네요.
한국 문학이 전세계 문학으로 발돋움 할 수 있도록 애쓰신 고인에 대해 삼가 명복을 빕니다.
<South Korean literary great Park dies at 81>
SEOUL, May 6 (Reuters) - Park Kyung-ni, one of South Korea's most celebrated novelists best known for her epic saga set against 19th and 20th century turbulence on the Korean peninsula, has died at the age of 81.
Park made her debut as a writer in 1955 and many critics have said her 16-volume saga called "The Land" is South Korea's best novel. It took Park about 25 years to write and has been made into a TV drama series, a movie and an opera.
Called "Toji" in Korean, the sweeping book has a cast of hundreds of characters throughout the peninsula. It follows them from the late 19th century, through Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule and to the division of the peninsula from the end of World War Two.
A culture ministry official said on Tuesday the ministry would posthumously award Park the country's top medal for those who promote South Korea's arts.
Park, who suffered from lung cancer, died at the weekend, the official said.
