Pyun Hye-young

This is a Korean name; the family name is Pyun.
Pyun Hye-young
Born 1972
South Korea
Occupation Author
Language Korean
Nationality South Korean
Ethnicity Korean
Period 1972-Present
Genre Modernist
Pyun Hye-young
Hangul 편혜영
Revised Romanization Pyeon Hye-yeong
McCune–Reischauer P'yŏn Hyeyŏng

Pyun Hye-young (Hangul: 편혜영, born 1972) is a South Korean writer.[1]

Life

Pyun Hye-young was born in Seoul in 1972.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4] 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 [5]

Works in English

Works in Korean (Partial)

Fiction Collections
Long Fiction

Awards

References

External links

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