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You-Jeong Jeong (Author), Chi-Young Kim (Translator) author biography, plus links to books by You-Jeong Jeong (Author), Chi-Young Kim (Translator).

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You-Jeong Jeong (Author), Chi-Young Kim (Translator)

You-Jeong Jeong is South Korea's leading writer of psychological thrillers and crime fiction, the award-winning author of four novels including Seven Years of Darkness, which was named one of the top ten crime novels of 2015 by Die Zeit (Germany). Her work has been translated into seven languages. A #1 bestseller in Korea, The Good Son is the first of her books to appear in English.

Chi-Young Kim is the award-winning translator of the Man Asian Literary Prize-winning and bestselling novel Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim, and works of fiction by Sun-Mi Hwang, J.M. Lee, and Young-Ha Kim, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.

This biography was last updated on 06/05/2018.

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