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Bae Myung-hoon

Bae Myung-hoon (b.1978) began his literary career with the Daehak Literary Award in 2004 and the Science Technology Creative Writing Award in 2005 for his short story “Smart D.” His short story collections include Tower and Hello, The Artificial Being! His novels are Define Orbit, Decoy, Sir Chancellor, and The Proposal.
Bae Suah

Bae Suah made her literary debut in 1993 in the quarterly Fiction and Philosophy with “The Dark Room of Nineteen Eighty-Eight.” She is the author of the short story collection Highway with Green Apples, the novella Nowhere to Be Found, and the novels Sunday Sukiyaki Restaurant, A Greater Music, North Living Room, Recitation, and Untold Night and Day. She translates from German into Korean. Her translations include Demian by Hermann Hesse, The Lesson of Mount Sainte-Victoire by Peter Handke, and The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector among several others.
Baek Eunsun

Baek Eunsun debuted in 2012 in the journal Literature and Society. She is the author of the poetry collections A Possible World, A Film Made with Scenes Nobody Can Remember, and Feeling Helped, and the book of essays I Hate Me, Like Me, and Find Myself Weird. She has received the 2017 Kim Jun-seong Literature Award and the 2021 Moonji Literature Award.
Baek Min-seok

Baek Minsuk shocked the Korean literary scene with his hardcore, grotesque debut novel, I Loved Candy, in 1995, but stopped writing in 2003. He took up writing again a decade later and has been vigorously writing ever since. He has authored one novella, four short story collections, two essay collections, and six novels, including Bizarre Tales from the Cotton Field and A Century of Terror.
Baek Ohn-yu

Baek Ohn-yu received the 2017 MBC Children’s Fiction Award for her children’s novel, Jeonggyo. She received the 2019 Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction and the 2020 Today’s Writer Award for her debut novel, Yuwon, which is excerpted here.
Baek Se Hee

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Baek Young-ok

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Baik Sou Linne

Baik Sou Linne has authored the short story collections Falling in Paul and The Wretched Light, and the novel Dearly Beloved. She holds a PhD in French literature from Lumière University Lyon 2 and has translated Ágota Kristóf’s L’analphabète into Korean. She has received the Munhakdongne Young Writers’ Award, Moonji Literature Award, and Lee Haejo Literature Award. The Wretched Light has been translated into Japanese. “I Won’t Go Home Just Yet,” excerpted here, won the 2020 Hyundae Munhak Award.
Bak Solmay

Bak Solmay embarked on her literary career in 2009 with her debut novel Eul, which won Jaeum & Moeum’s inaugural New Writer’s Award. She has since authored the novels I Want to Write a Hundred Lines, Time in the City, Slowly Head First, and the short story collections Then What Shall We Sing?, Winter’s Gaze, Beloved Dog, and International Night. Her latest novel is Future Walking Rehearsals. She has received the Moonji Literary Award, Kim Seungok Literary Award, and Kim Hyeon Prize.
Bang Hyeon-seok

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