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Choi Jin-young


Born
in Seoul, Korea, Republic of
December 01, 1981


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 Literary Award and, most recently, the Yi Sang Literary Award.

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Average rating: 3.52 · 2,855 ratings · 673 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
Hunger
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3.53 avg rating — 2,483 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions
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To the Warm Horizon
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3.51 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions
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Solo las mujeres desaparecen
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“If only it were a billion years in the future, I’d leave Earth with your body on my back and we’d be a pair of happy boats. Doesn’t that sound nicer than cannibalism?”
― Choi jin-young, Hunger
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“What misfortune wants is for me to mistreat myself. To look down on myself and destroy myself. I'll never come to resemble this disaster. I won't live as the disaster wants me to live.”
― Choi Jin-young, To the Warm Horizon
tags: inspirational-quotes
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“I ate a person. A human being. Is that a sin?”
― Choi Jin-young
tags: hunger
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