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Kyung-Ran Jo made her literary debut in 1996 when her short story The French Optical Shop won the Dong-a Ilbo New Writer's Contest. She is the author of five story collections and three novels. Her novel Tongue was published in the US by Bloomsbury in 2009. She is also the recipient of the Hyundae Munhak Award and the Dong-In Literary Award, among others. Blowfish is her second novel to be translated and published in the English language. Chi- Young Kim is a literary translator based in Los Angeles. A
recipient of the Man Asian Literary Prize for her work on Please
Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin, she has translated more
than twenty books. Her translation of Cheon Myeong-kwan's
Whale was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. |
