![]() ![]() ![]() Ĭhung translates contemporary prose from Russian and Polish into Korean. The ten stories borrow from different genres, including magical realism, horror and science fiction. In 2022, the English edition of her short story collection Cursed Bunny translated by Anton Hur was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. She is also a recipient of second prizes at the Digital Literature Awards (2008) and Gwacheon Science Center SF Awards (2014). In 1998, she won a Yonsei Literature Prize for her short story The Head. She lists as her literary influences the works of Park Wan-suh, Bruno Schulz, Bruno Jasieński, Andrei Platonov and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, as well as Samguk yusa folktales. Ĭhung has written three novels and three collections of short stories. She taught the Russian language, literature and science fiction studies at Yonsei University. She completed graduate studies in Russian and East European area studies at Yale University, then went on to gain a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana University. Her collection of short stories, Cursed Bunny, was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.īora Chung was born in 1976, in Seoul. ![]() Bora Chung (born 1976) is a South Korean writer and translator. ![]()
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