Gong, Ji-young

Gong Jiyoung has been considered one of the most eminent Korean writers since the mid-1990s. With delicate and refined sensibilities, this pioneer of Korean feminism has written a series of books on feminism, for which she has gained the attention of readers and literary critics alike. In her literary world of Korean youth from the 1980s, she intensely gropes for answers to their problems, while accepting as part of life the absurdities of the time and society. Gong continues to devote much of her creative energy to the issue of women and laborers, or those underprivileged and discriminated members of Korean society.