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
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- 1 2 3 4 Park Seolyeon(박서련)
- 1 2 3 Park Seolyeon
- ↑ 滞空女 屋根の上のモダンガール | Kang Juryong, the Girl in the Air
- ↑ Pyongyang woman's protest
- ↑ Juliet Jacques, Industrial Action Love Story, [[Tribune (magazine)|]], 2 February 2025
- ↑ A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon (Hardback)
- ↑ Author talks: Park Seolyeon
- ↑ Park Seol-yeon‘s magical mayhem returns with credit card-wielding heroine
- ↑ Project V: A Novel