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Jeong You-jeong

チョン・ユジョン　/　ちょん・ゆじょん

Writer from South Korea

August 15, 1966 (age 59)　・　Hampyeong County, South Jeolla, South Korea

South Jeolla
writer
nurse
novelist

My Take

What grabs me about Jeong You-jeong is the leap from nursing to noir. Having watched life and death up close in a hospital ward seems to feed the unflinching darkness of novels like Seven Years of Night, where she sits inside a murderer's mind and the son he leaves behind. I admire writers who refuse to look away, and she has that nerve in spades. It's striking that someone raised in the quiet of Hampyeong County produces fiction this feverish and humane. She's the kind of Korean storyteller whose books linger long after the last page, and I'd read whatever she writes next.

Overview

Jeong You Jeong (Korean: 정유정; born August 15, 1966) is a South Korean writer. Her books include Shoot Me in the Heart (내 심장을 쏴라), a book about youths wanting to escape a mental hospital in search for freedom; Chilnyeonui bam (7년의 밤 Seven Years of Night), a book about the story of a father who was forced to become a murderer, and a boy who grows up as the son of the murderer; 28, a book about the end of the world brou…

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1. Profile

Name (English): Jeong You-jeong
Name (Japanese): チョン・ユジョン
Reading: ちょん・ゆじょん
Born: August 15, 1966 (age 59)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Horse
Origin: Hampyeong County, South Jeolla, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: writer / nurse / novelist / short story writer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Christian College of Nursing

3. Relationships

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

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	The Good Son	—
Notable work	Seven Years of Darkness	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3

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