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Choe Hyeon-mu (Korean: 최현무; born 1953), better known by her pen name Choe Yun (최윤), is a South Korean writer, translator, and professor of French literature.
Ch’oe Yun, born in 1953, is a writer of formidable intellect and stylistic versatility. In real life Professor of French Literature Ch’oe Hyon-mu of Sogang University, she utilizes many of the modern fictional techniques in her writing, such as mixing fantasy with reality, parallel time structure, multiple versions of an episode, and so forth.
Ch’oe Yun is the author of There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories. She will be speaking at the Korea Society with translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton on Friday May 9 at 6:30. Korean Culture: Some writers, like O Chong-hui and Ch’oe In-ho, begin writing early in life; others, like Pak Wan-so, begin relatively late.
Nov 1, 1992 · THERE A PETAL SILENTLY FALLS (first published in 1992) includes three bewitching novellas from Korean writer Ch'oe Yun. The title story is a harrowing narrative of trauma and descent into madness inspired by the horrific Kwangju massacre of May 1980. The protagonist is a girl whose mother was killed in the massacre.
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Aug 4, 2014 · In an emotionally-charged debut piece of writing, Ch'oe creates the story of a girl found by a construction worker as she is wandering the streets. The initial scenes are loaded with rape, violence and then silence, but as the story progresses, we are shown that the story is about much more than just one unfortunate girl.
Aug 27, 2020 · We’re closing out Women in Translation Month with a Q&A on There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch’oe Yun, one of our most popular books and an astounding work of fiction.
Jan 30, 2014 · A middle-aged man (known only as “he”), unhappy with his life, is in Venice partly in search of Jang Jin-ja, who had once served as something like muse to ‘him’ and his group of male friends. Jang was nicknamed “Hanako” (“one nose”) only after she had been expelled from the group of friends, and her real name was never spoken by them again.
