Jung Jidon

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Jung Jidon(정지돈)

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Title: Jung Jidon
Family Name: Jung
First Name: Jidon
Middle Name: -
Preferred Name: -
Pen Name: Jung Jidon
ISNI: -
Birth: 1983
Death: -
Occupation: Writer
Period: Modern
Representative Works: -

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Born in Daegu in 1983, Jung Jidon studied Film and Creative Writing at university. He made his literary debut in 2013 when he won New Writer’s Award hosted by the literary magazine Literature and Society. Jung went on to receive the Best Young Writer Award in 2015 and the Moonji Literature Award in 2016. Through a style of writing that explores the boundaries between truth and fiction, Jung consistently attempts to seek the meaning in history, the present, and the future. His published works include As I Fight and Little Coward, Coward New Party, “Phantom Image” as well as the co-authored The Joys of Literature.

1983년 대구에서 태어났다. 대학에서 영화와 문예창작을 공부했다. 2013년 계간 《문학과사회》 신인문학상으로 등단했으며, 2015년 젊은작가상 대상, 2016년 문지문학상을 수상했다. 사실과 허구의 경계를 묻는 방식의 글쓰기를 통해 역사와 현재, 미래의 의미를 묻는 작업을 지속 중이다. 낸 책으로는 『내가 싸우듯이』, 『작은 겁쟁이 겁쟁이 새로운 파티』, 「팬텀 이미지」, 공동저서 『문학의 기쁨』이 있다.

郑智敦(1983)，韩国小说家。2013年短篇作品《失明的猫头鹰》（《눈먼 부엉이》）获季刊《文学和社会》新人文学奖后，开始步入文坛。其作品以写实主义技法细致地刻画了我们所处的现实。曾获青年作家奖大奖(2015)、文知文学奖(2016)。

小说集《夜班警卫的日记》（《야간 경비원의 일기》，2019）、长篇小说《一切曾都是永恒的》（《모든 것은 영원했다》，2020）

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