Jung Young Moon

Jung Young Moon, 2014
Korean spelling
Hangeul	정영문
Hanja	鄭 泳 文
Revised Romanization	Jeong Yeong-mun
McCune- Reischauer	Chŏng Yŏng-mun
See also : Korean name

Jung Young Moon (born 1965 in Hamyang, Gyeongsangnam-do , South Korea ) is a Korean writer and translator.

Life and education

Jung Young Moon studied psychology in Seoul. He made his literary debut in 1996. In addition to his literary occupation, he also works as a literary translator from English into Korean. In 2012, Jung, who has long been considered an eccentric and linguistically difficult literary outsider, was awarded three Korean literary prizes. Jung Young Moon also teaches creative writing at Seongsin University.

Awards

• 1999 Dongseo Literature Prize
• 2012 Han Moo-sook Literature Prize
• 2012 Dong-in Literature Prize
• 2012 Daesan Literature Prize

Works in German

• Moon drunk (2011)
• Vaseline Buddha. Translated from the Korean by Jan Henrik Dirks. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz, ISBN 978-3-85420-961-4 (2015)

Web links

• Author profile on the website of the Droschl literary publisher
• Author profile on the University of Iowa website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/jung-young-moon
2. ↑ https://www.droschl.com/autor/young-moon-jung/
3. ↑ https://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/jung-young-moon

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Jung is the family name here, Young Moon is the first name.