Chung Serang
정세랑
Chung Serang was born in 1984 in Seoul, Korea. She debuted in 2010 with the publication of the story “Dream, Dream, Dream” in the SF fantasy magazine Fantastique. Her writing usually depicts a world in which violence has become an everyday occurrence. Yet, the characters in her novels affirm individual good will and potential of ordinary people, and thus find hope in the end. Chung is the author of seven novels including As Close as This, and School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung and two short story collections: See You on the Rooftop and You Can Have My Voice. She has written the screenplay for School Nurse Files, an upcoming Netflix original series based on School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung. Chung is the recipient of the 2013 Changbi Prize in Fiction and the 2017 Hankook Ilbo Literary Award.
