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South Korean author Baek Se-hee, who wrote the bestselling memoir “I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki,” has died at age 35, the Korean Organ Donation Agency introduced on Thursday.
The company’s assertion didn’t give the trigger of Baek’s demise.
Her ebook blended memoir and self-help, detailing her conversations together with her psychiatrist as she grappled with conflicting emotions of eager to die but additionally having fun with small pleasures like tteokbokki, a well-liked South Korean road meals that was her favourite dish.
With its frank and considerate discussions about remedy and psychological well being, the ebook grew to become immensely standard in South Korea when it was printed in 2018. Once it was translated into English in 2022, it grew to become standard abroad, too, reaching the Sunday Times Bestsellers List within the United Kingdom and receiving a suggestion within the New York Times.
“Even when I changed all the parts of my life that I had wanted to change — my weight, education, partner and friends — I was still depressed,” she wrote. “I didn’t always feel that way, but I would go in and out of a funk that was as inevitable as bad weather.”
She wrote one other memoir in 2019, titled “I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki,” about her persevering with struggles of dwelling with dysthymia, a relentless low-level despair.
Born in 1990, the second of three daughters, Baek studied artistic writing at college. It was whereas she was working as a social media director at a publishing home that she underwent therapy for despair and wrote her memoir.
Baek’s youthful sister, Baek Da-hee, paid tribute to her sibling in an announcement launched by way of the organ donation company, remembering her as somebody who “wrote, shared her heart with others through her writing, and hoped to nurture dreams of hope.”
“I know her kind heart, one that loved so much and hated no one, so I hope she now rests in peace in heaven. I love you so much,” her sister added.
Baek donated her coronary heart, lungs, liver and each kidneys when she died, saving the lives of 5 individuals, the organ donation company stated.
Anton Hur, Baek’s English translator and fellow author, paid tribute to her in an Instagram post, saying that “her readers will know she touched yet millions of lives more with her writing. My thoughts are with her family.”