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Gu Byeong-mo

ク・ビョンモ　/　く・びょんも

Novelist from South Korea

January 1, 1976 (age 50)　・　Seoul, South Korea

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My Take

Gu Byeong-mo made one of the more striking debuts in recent Korean fiction, winning a major prize in 2009 with Wizard Bakery. Born in Seoul in 1976 and educated at Kyung Hee University, she fascinates me because she refuses to stay in one lane, moving from young-adult fantasy to the bracing noir of The Old Woman with the Knife, whose elderly female assassin is a wonderfully audacious premise. That genre-hopping freedom is rare and, to me, the mark of real confidence. She sits in a productive stretch of her career, and I expect her to keep subverting expectations. She is a writer I happily make shelf space for.

Overview

Gu Byeong-mo (Korean: 구병모; born 1976) is a South Korean writer. She made her literary debut in 2009 when her novel Wizard Bakery (위저드 베이커리 Wizard Bakery) won the 2nd Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction. Her 2015 short story collection Geugeosi namaneun anigireul (그것이 나만은 아니기를 I Hope It's Not Just Me) received the Today's Writer Award and Hwang Sun-won New Writers' Award.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Gu Byeong-mo
Name (Japanese): ク・ビョンモ
Reading: く・びょんも
Born: January 1, 1976 (age 50)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Dragon
Origin: Seoul, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: novelist / writer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Kyung Hee University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Wizard Bakery	—
Notable work	The Old Woman with the Knife	—
Notable work	Agami	—
Notable work	A Single Sentence	—

6. Links

Xhttps://x.com/ere_whon
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A2

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