Occupation Author Period 1972-Present Genre Modernist | Nationality South Korean Name Pyun Hye-young Ethnicity Korean Role Writer | |
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Education Seoul Institute of the Arts | ||
Interview de l auteur sud cor en pyun hye young
Pyun Hye-young (Hangul: 편혜영, born 1972) is a South Korean writer.
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- Interview de l auteur sud cor en pyun hye young
- LTI Korea Teaser Writer Pyun Hye Young
- Life
- Work
- Works in English
- Works in Korean partial
- Awards
- References
[LTI Korea] Teaser: Writer Pyun Hye Young
Life
Pyun Hye-young was born in Seoul in 1972. She earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. After receiving these degrees, Pyun worked as an office worker, and many office workers appear in her stories.
Work
Pyun began publishing in 2000 and published three collections of stories, Aoi Garden, To The Kennels, and Evening Courtship as well as the novel Ashes and Red. In 2007, To the Kennels won the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, in 2009 the short story O Cuniculi won the Yi Hyo-Seok Literature prize and then the Today’s Young Writer Award in 2010, while in 2011 Evening Courtship won the Dong-in Literary Award. Her works have several themes including alienation in modern life, an apocalyptic world, and they are often infused with grotesque images. The novel Ashes and Red explores irony and the dual nature of humanity
Works in English
