Choi Jin-young is one of Korea's most celebrated authors. Her career started in 2006 when she won the Silcheon Literature Debut Author Award. She has since won many more including the Hankyoreh Literary Award, Shin Dong-yup Literary Prize, Baek Shin-ae Literature Award, Manhae Prize for Literature and, most recently, the Yi Sang Literary Award. Her novels include A Neverending Song and The Name of that Girl Who Passed by You Is....
ROMEO & JULIET meets THE VEGETARIAN, HUNGER is the quarter-of-a-million-copy Korean cult classic phenomenon that defined a generation