Pyun Hye-young

Pyun Hye-young is a South Korean author of literary horror and dark fiction. She won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for The Hole (2017), a novella about a man who survives a car accident only to find himself bedridden and at the mercy of his deceased wife's controlling mother. Born in Seoul in 1972, Pyun studied creative writing at Hanyang University and the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Her fiction is known for its claustrophobic atmospheres, unreliable narrators, and exploration of bodily vulnerability and domestic horror. The Hole was translated into English by Sora Kim-Russell. Her other works translated into English include The Strawberry Field and At Night All Blood Is Black. She is one of the most internationally recognized Korean literary fiction authors and continues to publish in South Korea.