Recipient of the 2025 Arts Council Korea Literature Fellowship
"Love is everything. I hope that all of you get the chance to experience as many kinds of love as possible. It's the best part of being human. If you're in love now, don't hesitate. You can never replicate what you feel today. Never forget that." (Excerpt from Wisdom House interview, Oct. 26, 2023)
1. Life
Born in 1980, Cho Woori studied playwriting and taught writing to high school students. She spent her 20s writing catalogs for art exhibitions and album reviews, her 30s on childcare, and made her literary debut at the age of forty winning the BIR Blue Fiction Award for Anyway, I Don’t Ever Want to Turn Twenty. She currently enjoys an active career as a children's and YA writer.
2. Writing
Cho Woori is a writer in her 40s writing children's and YA literature. Cho's work features various teen protagonists from LGBTQ to disabled individuals, unmarried mothers, dropouts, student interns from specialized vocational schools, and sexually curious female teenagers. The author's uncanny knack for getting teen dialogue exactly right coupled with a speedy narrative style provides a high-resolution portrait of teens here and today, both at school and without. While her protagonists sometimes find themselves in seemingly hopeless situations due to unfortunate choices, they eventually find their way, albeit slowly, always directed by love.
Reference
Works
Anyway, I Don’t Ever Want to Turn Twenty 어쨌거나 스무 살은 되고 싶지 않아(BIR Publishing Co., Ltd. 비룡소, 2019)
Oh, Love 오, 사랑(Sakyejul Publishing Ltd 사계절, 2020)
See You in a Dream 꿈에서 만나(Sakyejul Publishing Ltd 사계절, 2021)
My Name Is Cukcoo 내 이름은 쿠쿠(Little Mountain Publishing Co. 낮은산, 2021)
1831 Days of Impossible and Incomprehensible Sadness 얼토당토않고 불가해한 슬픔에 관한1831일의 보고서, (Munhakdongne Publishing Corp., 문학동네, 2022)
Sagwa’s Private Life 사과의 사생활, (Wisdom House, Inc. 위즈덤하우스, 2023)
The World of 4x4 4X4의 세계, (Changbi Publishers, Inc., 창비, 2025)
Chelsea Hotel, at the End of All Alleys 모든 골목의 끝에 첼시호텔, (Munhakdongne Publishing Corp., 문학동네, 2025)
Co-authored works
Press Reload like Crazy 마구 눌러 새로 고침, (Jaeum & Moeum Publishing 자음과 모음, 2021)
Moro's Tomorrow 모로의 내일,(Sakyejul Publishing Ltd 사계절, 2022)
For the Sake of the Nth Part N분의1을 위하여 ,(Changbi Edu 창비교육, 2022)
Your and My Evening Study Hall 너와 나의 야자시간,(Jumping Books 책폴, 2022)
What’s That Between Us 하면 좀 어떤 사이 ,(Little Mountain Publishing Co. 낮은산, 2023)
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