Born in 1976, Hwang Jungeun is a leading voice in contemporary
Korean literature. She has won many of Korean's most prestigious
awards, including the Daesan Literary Award, Korean Booksellers'
Award, and the Shin Dongyup Prize for Literature. Her novel One
Hundred Shadows, described by Han Kang as 'unforgettable,' along
with Years and Years, was published in the US in 2024.
Jung Yewon is the translator of One Hundred Shadows, by Hwang
Jung-eun. She is also the translator of No One Writes Back by Jang
Eun-jin and one of the co-translators of A Most Ambiguous Sunday
and Other Stories by Jung Young Moon, both published by Dalkey
Archive as part of their Library of Korean Literature series. Her
translation of Jung Young Moon's Vaseline Buddha is published by
Deep Vellum.
'There is an unforgettable, curious beauty to be found here.' - Han Kang, winner of the Man Booker International Prize
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