Choi Eunyoung is a South Korean writer acclaimed for her
nuanced yet poignant stories about women, queer people, victims of
state violence, and other marginalized voices. She is the author of
the bestselling story collections Shoko's Smile and Someone Who
Can't Hurt Me, which have sold over 200,000 copies and 150,000
copies respectively in Korea and is being translated into several
languages. Since her literary debut in 2013, she has received
numerous accolades, including the Munhakdongne Young Writers Award
(2014, 2017, 2020), Heo Kyun Literary Award, Lee Haejo Literary
Award, and Hankook Ilbo Literary Award. Both of her story
collections were selected as the best fiction title of the year by
50 Korean writers (2016, 2018). She has also published a
Korean-English bilingual edition of her novella The Summer and
contributed to many anthologies.
Sung Ryu is a Korean-English translator who grew up in South
Korea, the US, and Canada, her most recent home being Singapore.
Her translations include Tower by Bae Myung-hoon (2021), I'm
Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young (co-translated
with Sophie Bowman, 2021), and the Korean edition of Grandma Moses:
My Life's History by Anna Mary Robertson Moses (2017). She
translated the Jeju myth "Segyeong Bonpuri" (Origins of the Harvest
Deities) for her MA thesis.
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