Authors
Sim Yunkyung Novelist South Korea
Sim Yunkung was born in 1972 in Seoul, Korea. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in molecular biology at Seoul National University, but turned to writing afterwards. She has no plans to write science fiction in the future. Sim debuted in 2002 by winning the Hankyoreh Literature Award for her work My Beautiful Garden—a novel based on her childhood experience of growing up in the hillside slum of Inwangsan Mountain. The unique sensibilities of people living in Seoul’s old urban center form the basis of her literary world. She has authored the novels The People of Sorabol and Love Runs. In her most recent work Seol (2019), a twelve-year-old orphan named Seol observes a dysfunctional middle-class family and questions the true meaning of family love.
Participation Program
ⓒ Lizeth Arellano
[Writers in Conversation] In the World of Tomorrow
ⓒ LM. PALOMARES
ⓒ 백다흠
Discussion My Inspiration
Public Reading