Pyun Hye-young explained

Pyun Hye-young
Birth Date:	1972
Birth Place:	South Korea
Occupation:	Author
Nationality:	South Korean
Period:	1972–present
Genre:	Modernist
Language:	Korean
Module:	Child: yes Color: khaki Hangul: 편혜영 Hanja: 片惠英 Rr: Pyeon Hye-yeong Mr: P'yŏn Hyeyŏng

Pyun Hye-young (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 Proposal 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 Hyoseok Literature Prize and then the Today's Young Writer Award in 2010, while in 2011 Evening Proposal won the Dong-in Literary Award. Her works have several themes including alienation in modern life and an apocalyptic world, and they are often infused with grotesque images. The novel Ashes and Red explores irony and the dual nature of humanity ^[4]

Works in English

• "O Cuniculi"^[5]
• "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, Dalkey Archive Press, 2016,
• Book: P . The Hole . . 2017 . 9781628727807 . English hardcover 1st . New York . 1—198 . en . 2 . Translated by Sora Kim-Russell.
• Book: P . City of Ash and Red . . 2018 . 9781628727814 . English hardcover 1st . en . 2 . Translated by Sora Kim-Russell.
• Book: P . The Law of Lines . . 2020 . 9781948924962 . English hardcover 1st . en . 2 . Translated by Sora Kim-Russell.^[6]

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 Dong-in Literary Award
• 2014 48th Yi Sang Literary Award^[7]
• 2017 11th Shirley Jackson Award for best novel, for The Hole^[8]

External links

• An interview with Pyun Hye-Young at Acta Koreana
• Witness to Solitude: Novelist Pyun Hye-young LIST Magazine Vol.12 Summer 2011

Notes and References

1. "Pyun Hye-young" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do#
2. http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/hye-young-pyun Words without borders
3. https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2012-01/necessary-or-true-happenstances-an-introduction-to-the-work-of-hye-young-py/ Necessary or true
4. Witness to Solitude: Novelist Pyun Hye-young, by Yang Yun-eui LIST Magazine, Vol. 12, Summer 2011
5. http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/o-cuniculi “O Cuniculi”
6. Web site: The Law of Lines.
7. (in Korean) 제38회 이상문학상 대상에 소설가 편혜영. Yonhap, January 13, 2014.
8. Web site: 2017 Shirley Jackson Award Winners . 2024-04-10 . The Shirley Jackson Awards . 2022-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220425222909/https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2017-shirley-jackson-award-winners/ . live .