Sou Linne BAIK debuted in the Kyunghyang Shinmun Spring Annual Literary contest in 2011. She is the author of the short story collections Falling in Paul, Wretched Light, Summer Villa, the full-length fiction books Blinding Greetings, the novellas To Love and Be Loved, the short story collection Please Don’t Let This Night Disappear, the essay collection Tender Each and Everyday, A Happy Feeling I Haven’t Felt in Ages, amongst others. She has been the recipient of the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, the Hyundae Literary Award, Yi Haejo Novel Literature Prize, Munji Literary Award, Kim Seung-Ok Literary Award, and Young Writers Award. She has also translated many books including Agota Kristof’s The Illiterate, Marguerite Duras’s Summer Rain, Annie Ernaux’s A Girl Story, Françoise Sagan’s Toxic, and Simone de Beauvoir’s The Inseparables.
