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Bora Chung

チョン・ボラ

Jeong Bora

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1976 (Seoul)
Nationality
South Korea
Languages
Korean, Russian, Polish
Residence History
Seoul

Career

Occupations
writer, translator, university lecturer, social activist
Active Years
1998-2024
Affiliations
Yonsei University
Influenced By
Park Wan-suh, Bruno Schulz, Bruno Jasieński, Andrei Platonov, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Samguk yusa

Education

Yale University
Russian and East European area studies
Period: 大学院課程
Country: United States
Indiana University Bloomington
Slavic literature
Degree: PhD
Period: 博士課程
Country: United States

Awards

Yonsei Literature Prize
1998
Work: The Head
Organization: Yonsei University
Result: winner
Digital Literature Awards
2008
Result: 2nd prize
Gwacheon Science Center SF Awards
2014
Organization: Gwacheon Science Center
Result: 2nd prize
International Booker Prize
2022
Work: Cursed Bunny
Category: 翻訳小説部門
Organization: Booker Prize Foundation
Result: shortlisted
National Book Award for Translated Literature
2023
Work: Cursed Bunny
Organization: National Book Foundation
Result: longlisted

Awards & Nominations

  1. Work: Cursed Bunny

    A genre-bending story collection that mixes horror, fable, and black humor to expose violence embedded in family, consumer culture, and the body.

    The strange starts to throw the real world back into view.

    199 pages
    short storieshorrorfablethe bodyviolence

Works

Major Works

Cursed Bunny

2017 magical realism, horror, science fiction short story collection

A collection of ten short stories borrowing from different genres, including magical realism, horror and science fiction.

cursesgendermargins of society
Translations
  • translated into English by Anton Hur

Translations of Works

  • English (Anton Hur)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
genre-blendingwriting from the marginsfeminist perspectives
Recurring Motifs
folktale elementsscience fictional imagination

Legacy

South Korean writer internationally acclaimed, shortlisted for International Booker Prize with Cursed Bunny. Also translates contemporary Russian and Polish prose into Korean.

Trivia

  • Parents were dentists.
  • She is a social activist.