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Cho Haejin has written five novels and three short-story collections. She burst onto the literary scene when she won the Literature Center’s New Writer Award in 2004. Since then, she has received numerous other literary awards, including the Daesan Literary Award (2019), the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award (2016), and the Munkakdongnae Young Writers Award (2014). Her novel I Met Loh Kiwan won the Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature in 2013. It was translated into English by Ji-Eun Lee and published by the University of Hawai‘i Press in 2019. This novel was made into a film called My Name Is Loh Kiwan and released on Netflix in 2024. Her novel A Simple Heart, translated by Jamie Chang, will be published in February 2026 by Other Press.