Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is an award-winning author and translator based in South Korea.
Winning the 1998 Yonsei Literature Prize for her short story The Head,
she came to international attention in 2022 with her collection of short stories, Cursed Bunny.
It was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and made it onto several award shortlists.
Now she's back with a new collection, the Midnight Time Table.
It is a collection of short stories set in an unusual research facility.
The book is equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political.
Boritun, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you for having me.
It's wonderful for us to have a South Korean writer and translator in the studio with us here at Monaco.
We love everything South Korean and it's great to get the opportunity to talk to you.
You were born in Seoul.
Tell us about your early life.
I was born in Seoul.
My dad used to be a professor of dentistry.
My mother used to, they're both retired now, but my mother was a dentist.
And my dad had one-year exchange program in the US, so he took his whole family.
That's why I sound like this.