Park Seolyeon (Korean: 박서련; born 1989) is a South Korean writer. She made her debut with the short story Mikimauseu keulleob (미키마우스 클럽; lit. 'The Mickey Mouse Club').[1]

Park Seolyeon was born in Cheorwon, South Korea and she lives in Seoul.[2]

Works

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  • 2015: “Mikimauseu keulleob” (미키마우스 클럽 "The Mickey Mouse Club"), short story
  • 2018: Chegongnyeo gangjuryong (체공녀 강주룡 Kang Juryong, the Woman in the Air, novel[1], also known as The Woman Who Climbed on the Roof
    • 2020: Japanese translation: 滞空女 屋根の上のモダンガール[3]
    • 2025: English translation: Capitalists Must Starve (by Anton Hur ISBN 978-1-917126-21-2)
The novel is based on the life of Kang Juryong,[4] a female worker who led a strike at the Pyongwon rubber factory in Japan-occupied Pyongyang in 1931, climbing the roof of Ulmil Pavilion to protest working conditions.[5]
  • 2020: Deo syeolli keulleob (더 셜리 클럽 The Shirley Club), novel
  • Martha's Job
  • Your Mom's the Better Player, short story collection
  • Me, Me, Madeline, short story collection
  • My Hormones Made Me Do It, short story collection
  • 2024: A Magical Girl Retires, feminist fantasy novel, translation by Anton Hur, ISBN 9780063373266[6][7]
  • 2026: A Magical Girl Rehired, feminist fantasy novel , translation by Anton Hur, ISBN 9780063475960. Korean edition: 2024 by Changbi Publishers[8]
  • 2026: Project V, a novel translated by Gene Png, described as "STEMinist mecha fantasy"[9]

Awards

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  • 2015:Silcheon Munhak New Writer’s Award for "The Mickey Mouse Club"[1]
  • 2018: 23rd Hankyoreh Literature Award for Kang Juryong, the Woman in the Air[1]
  • 2021: Munhakdongne Young Writers Award[2]
  • 2023: Yi Sang Literary Prize[2]

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