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Kim Yoon Young Novelist South Korea
Kim Yoon Young was born in Seoul in 1971. She majored in Social Studies Education at Ewha Woman’s University and attained MA in Modern Korean History at Sungkyunkwan University. She made her literary debut in 1997 when she won the Changbi Prize for New Writers for her novella “The Secret Garden.” She published her first short story collection Louis Vuitton from Changbi Publishers in 2002, followed by the second collection Tarzan from Silcheonmunhak in 2006 and a critical biography The Legend of June, Park Jong-chul from Korea Democracy Foundation in 2007. She twice received the Korean Cultural and Arts Promotion Fund from the Arts Council Korea in 2002 and 2007.
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