Authors
Kim Hye-jin Novelist South Korea
Born in 1979 in Seoul, Kim Hye-jin graduated from the department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Yonsei University. In 2003, she was given the Daesan Creative Writing Fund for her fantasy novel for children Aro and the Perfect World, which illuminates the relationship between two worlds—one perfect and one imperfect. She has written two novels, The Cane Race and The Unknown Color, both set in the Perfect World, and did the artwork for both books herself. After that she flew to Britain to study illustration further. She has also written a young adults’ novel, Proust Club, and translated several books into Korean—Is There Life After Graduation, Henry Birnbaum?, The Most Beautiful Place in the World, and Getting Near to Baby.
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