Pyun Hye-young | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 1972 (age 53–54) South Korea |
| Occupation | Author |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Korean |
| Period | 1972–present |
| Genre | Modernist |
| Notable work | The Hole |
| Notable awards | Shirley Jackson Award (2017) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 편혜영 |
| Hanja | 片惠英 |
| RR | Pyeon Hyeyeong |
| MR | P'yŏn Hyeyŏng |
Pyun Hye-young (Korean: 편혜영, born 1972) is a South Korean writer. She won the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel for her novel The Hole.
Pyun Hye-young was born in Seoul in 1972. She earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. After receiving these degrees, Pyun worked as an office worker. Many of her stories feature office workers.
Pyun began publishing in 2000. She has published three collections of stories, Aoi Garden, To the Kennels: And Other Stories, and Evening Proposal, as well as four novels, The Owl Cries: A Novel, City of Ash and Red, The Hole, and The Law of Lines.
In 2007, her collection To the Kennels won the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award. Her short story "O. Cuniculus" won the Yi Hyoseok Literature Prize in 2009 and then the Today's Young Writer Award in 2010. In 2011, Evening Proposal won the Dong-in Literary Award. Her works have several themes including alienation in modern life and an apocalyptic world, and they are often infused with grotesque images.
The novel City of Ash and Red explores irony and the dual nature of humanity. It was named a "Best Book of 2018" by NPR.
