A Certain Truth: A Collection of Novels Winning the 68th Contemporary Literature Award, 2023

Award-winning work
An Bo-yoon's true feelings 9

Award-winning author's charity work
How many angels are there at the tip of Ahn Bo-yoon's needle? 35

Award nominees
Moon Jin-young's Everything About My Grandmother 65
Park Ji-young, Cuckoo, To My Companion Rice Cooker 89
Lee Seo-su's Tangled Sleeves 129
Body and Light 159
Yoon Bo-in couldn't buy the Apgujeong Hyundai, so he was 185.
Lee Seung-eun We Really Didn't Know 219
Lee Jang-wook Yoru 245

Judges' comments
Preliminary examination
Seo Hee-won│Impression of Puzzle 272
Jeong So-hyeon│Novels are like VR 277
Cho Dae-han│Most Literature 280

true feelings
Pyeon Hye-young│The Usefulness of Sincerity 283
Hwang Jong-yeon│Acting and Sincerity 286

Acceptance Speech
An Bo-yoon, Everything I Know 289

White Deer Pond: The 68th Contemporary Literature Award-Winning Poetry Collection, 2023

Award-winning work

Hwang Yu-won
White Deer Pond
alarm clock
air supply
Arvo Pärt Center
Eric Satie
Next to the white-flowered wisteria
Snowman to Heaven

Poet's Charity Award

Deer and Glass
Daytime snow
Little Drummer Boy
Snowman Mystery
Tintinabuli
The most poetic event of the year
The sheep are leisurely grazing
Avalanche performance

Award nominees

Power
Invincible and innumerable
skirt
square
rental apartment
There is no/there is
A sack and a hoe
drapetomania―Samuel A.
Cartwright, 80 「Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race」, 1851

Kim Seung-il
happiness
The weight of reality
A heart that doesn't hate
Feeling like I know everything
answer
ask
Guide

Kim Hyun
Black and white machinery
That evening Purgatory
active volcano
Go
About a poet who decided not to write sentimental poetry
Easy-to-write poetry
really far away

Song Seung-eon
bad wood
corpse communism
Next to the bad tree
(laugh)
Cursed image
New bundle of bones
Flag bearer

Ahn Hee-yeon
Awesome life
high tide
The changing form of birds
People who share one bird
Oblivion takes a walk
The song is far away
The beginning of a wave

Lee Young-kwang
calculate
Spring is
Clouds of vanity
A heart that hates
middle
Cheongsong
Close contact

Lee Young-joo
Cloud Feather Pillow
studio
The ghost has come
Last conversation
incinerator
Madman Magnetic
Madman Magnetic

Judges' comments

Preliminary examination
Na Min-ae's hand, a contagion of hope
Lee Geun-hwa's linguistic woes

true feelings
Kim Ki-taek's Poetry: The Power That Makes Poetry Poetry and an Adventure Toward Freedom
I hope we can breathe in the fragrance of Lee Ki-seong's "White Deer Pond" together.

Acceptance Speech
With respect and friendship, Hwang Yu-won