Kyung-Ran Jo

Kyung-Ran Jo was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1969. She earned a degree in creative writing from Seoul Institute of the Arts and has participated in the University of Iowa's renowned International Writing Program. Since her fiction debut at age twenty-eight, she has earned numerous literary awards, including the Today's Young Artist Prize from the South Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism as well as the Dong-in L iterary Award for her newest shortstory collection, I Bought Balloons ....See more

Kyung-Ran Jo was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1969. She earned a degree in creative writing from Seoul Institute of the Arts and has participated in the University of Iowa's renowned International Writing Program. Since her fiction debut at age twenty-eight, she has earned numerous literary awards, including the Today's Young Artist Prize from the South Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism as well as the Dong-in L iterary Award for her newest shortstory collection, I Bought Balloons . Tongue , an immediate bestseller in South Korea, is her first novel to be translated See less