
Park Hyunju
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Park Hyunju is a writer, essayist, and translator. Her published works include the novels My Daily Occult Life: Spring Summer Edition, My Daily Occult Life: Fall Winter Edition, and Searching for Honeyman; the essay collections Romance Pharmacy, and The Safe Distance Between You and I; and the translations of Raymond Chandler: Selected Works, Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Truman Capote: Selected Works, Charles Bukowski’s novels and poetry, and the nonfiction work, Barbarian Days. She received the 2018 Yoo Yeong Translation Award for her translation of Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum. She is currently serializing a column in the Hankyoreh titled “Reading Genre Fiction with Park Hyunju.”