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Jeong Yi Hyun Novelist South Korea
Jeong Yi Hyun was born in 1972 in Seoul and studied Political Science at Sungshin Women’s University and Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She made her publishing debut in 2002 with the short story “Romantic Love and Society,” for which she was named winner of the 1st Best New Writer Award by the quarterly Literature and Society. She was awarded the 5th Yi Hyo-seok Literary Award for the short story “Solitude of Others” (2004) and the 51st Contemporary Literature Award for her story “Sampung Department Store” (2006). She also received the Today’s Young Artist Award in 2006. She has published two short story collections, Romantic Love and Society (2003) and Lies for Today (2007), and a novel, My Sweet City (2006).
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