Jo Kyung Ran (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea[1]) is a South Korean writer.
[5] Jo lived in Bonngcheon-dong for nearly 20 years in a small rooftop apartment that her father built for her.
[6] She made her literary debut in 1996 with the short story, French Optical which won the Donga-Ilbo Prize.
[7] Internationally famous, she is a speaker in demand for conferences, having appeared at “Beyond Borders: Translating and Publishing Korean Literature in the U.S.” in New York in 2009 [8] and more recently at The Seoul International Forum for Literature 2011.
[9] Jo's work is famous for taking trivial, mundane, and everyday occurrences and delicately describing them in subtle emotional tones.