Jeong Ji-a was born in 1965 in Gurye, Jeollanam-do, South Korea to socialist parents. She received her PhD in Creative Writing at Chung-Ang University. Her first novel, The Partisan's Daughter, was classified as "enemy-benefiting material" and banned for ten years. Meanwhile, her ties to Nodonghaebangmunhak (Labor Liberation Literature), a journal of the Socialist Workers Union of South Korea, made her wanted by the government for several years.
She was sentenced to probation but returned to literature through a new writer's contest and went on to author the short story collections Happiness, Light of Spring, and The Forest Speaks. She won the Chosun Ilbo New Writers Contest, the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award, the Today's Novel Prize, and the Hahn Moo-Sook Literary Prize. My Father's Liberation is her second novel. Anton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was subsequently raised in six different countries on four different continents, including British Hong Kong, Ethiopia, the United States, and Thailand, but he spent most of his time in Korea.
He has worked as an interpreter and translator for more than two decades. In 2022, he was double longlisted and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and, in 2023, his translation of Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny was a finalist for the National Book Awards. He lives in Seoul.
She was sentenced to probation but returned to literature through a new writer's contest and went on to author the short story collections Happiness, Light of Spring, and The Forest Speaks. She won the Chosun Ilbo New Writers Contest, the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award, the Today's Novel Prize, and the Hahn Moo-Sook Literary Prize. My Father's Liberation is her second novel. Anton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was subsequently raised in six different countries on four different continents, including British Hong Kong, Ethiopia, the United States, and Thailand, but he spent most of his time in Korea.
He has worked as an interpreter and translator for more than two decades. In 2022, he was double longlisted and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and, in 2023, his translation of Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny was a finalist for the National Book Awards. He lives in Seoul.