Biographie de Bo-Reum Hwang
Hwang Bo-Reum studied computer science and worked as a software engineer. Hwang has authored several essay collections : I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and The Perfect Distance. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is her first novel. Shanna Tan is a Singaporean translator working from Korean, Chinese and Japanese into English. She was selected for two emerging literary translator mentorships in 2021/22, where she was mentored by Anton Hur and Julia Sanches.
Her prose translations have appeared in The Southern Review, The Common, Azalea : Journal of Korean Literature & Culture and more.