| Hwang Boreum | |||||||||
| Occupation: | Writer | ||||||||
| Genre: | Fiction | ||||||||
| Notable Works: | Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop | ||||||||
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Hwang Boreum is a South Korean writer, whose debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop became an overnight hit and was translated to several languages. The book's Japanese translation won the Japan Booksellers' Award in 2024.[1] [2] The novel sold over 300,000 copies in South Korea.
Hwang studied computer science and worked as a software engineer at LG Electronics for several years before she decided the job was not suitable for her and quit. She started writing at the age of 30, and her first endeavours were initially rejected by publishers. After writing essay collections titled I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect, she decided to write a novel. She wrote Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop in three months and uploaded it to a literary platform called Brunch (브런치). When the platform organized a contest, she submitted her novel and won.[3] [4] The English translation of the novel was sold to 25 countries for further translation. The book is often classified as a "healing novel" or "feel good novel".