Hye-young Pyun

Pyun Hye-young was born in 1972 in Seoul, South Korea. She began publishing in 2000 and published three collections of stories, Aoi Garden, To the Kennels, and Evening Courtship, and the novel Ashes and Red. To The Kennels was the recipient of the fortieth Hankook Ilbo Literary Award in 2007; Evening Courtship won the prestigious Dong-in literary award tin 2011; and the short story "O. Cuniculi" won the tenth Yi Hyo-seok Literature Prize in 2009 and the Today's Young Writer Award in 2010.