O Jung-hee

O Jung-hee was born in Seoul in 1947, to parents who were refugees from Haeju. During the war her father was mobilised, and the family lived for five years as refugees in Hongseong district before settling in Incheon, near the Chinatown, according to the directory of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. A student of creative writing at the Sorabeol School of Arts, she made her debut in 1968 by winning the Joongang Ilbo competition. She then received the Yi Sang and Dong-in prizes, and then, in 2003, the German LiBeraturpreis.

In the catalogue 1

• Short stories유년의 뜰O Jung-hee · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature