The Amusing Life

Song Sokze was born in 1960, in Sangju, and studied law at Yonsei University. After debuting with the publication of “A Man Wiping the Window” in Literature and Thought in 1986, he began writing fiction in 1994, with his collection of short stories, Where Bewilderment Lives. He received the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award, the Korea Times Literary Award, the Dongseo Literary Award, and the Dongin Literary Award. He also received the Chae Man-sik Literary Award in 2015 for his novel, The Invisible Man.

Se-un Kim is a freelance interpreter and translator specializing in literary translation, and was the recipient of a grant from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. She has been translating for over fifteen years and currently lives in Seoul.