Pyun Hye-young (, born 1972) is a South Korean writer.

Life

Pyun Hye-young was born in

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Korean literature Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja. It is commonly divided into classica ...

from

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. 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 The Dong-in Literary Award ( ko, 동인문학상) is a South Korean literary award named after novelist Kim Dong-in, established in order to praise the literary achievement of The Republic of Korea. In commemoration of the Korean modern literatu ...

. 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

* “O Cuniculi”
”Mallow Gardens” and ”Corpses”
(This is a PDF file hosted by Acta Koreana) * ”To the Kennels” in AZALEA, Issue 2, 2008, p. 307 * ''Evening Proposal'', translated by Park Youngsuk and Gloria Cosgrove Smith,

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, 2016, * ''The Hole'', translated by Sora Kim-Russell,

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, 2017,

Shirley Jackson Award The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented ...

* ''City of Ash and Red'', translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Arcade Publishing, 2018, * ''The Law of Lines'', translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Arcade Publishing, 2020,

Works in Korean (partial)

; Fiction collections * 《아오이가든》(문학과지성사, 2005) * 《사육장 쪽으로》(문학동네, 2007) * 《저녁의 구애》(문학과지성사, 2011) *《죽은 자로 하여금》 (현대문학, 2018) ; Long fiction * 《재와 빨강》(창비, 2010) * 《서쪽 숲에 갔다》(문학과지성사, 2012)

Awards

* 2007 40th Hankook Ilbo Literary Award for her collection To the Kennels * 2007 The 5th Proud Cultural Impression award *2009 The 10th Hyo-Seok Lee Literature Award *2010 The 18th Today's Young Artist Award (Literature Division) * 2012 42nd

* 2014 48th

Yi Sang Literary Award The Yi Sang Literary Award (이상문학상) is a South Korean literary award. It is one of South Korea's most prestigious literary awards, named after Yi Sang, an innovative writer in modern Korean literature. The Yi Sang Literary Award was estab ...

(in Korean
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, January 13, 2014.

References

External links

An interview with Pyun Hye-Young at Acta Koreana

LIST Magazine Vol.12 Summer 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pyun, Hye-young 1972 births South Korean novelists Living people Seoul Institute of the Arts alumni Writers from Seoul Jeolgang Pyeon clan