Associated Names:*
조남주 (Korean)
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Cho Nam-Joo (English)
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趙南柱 (Chinese)
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โชนัมจู (Thai)
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チョ・ナムジュ (Japanese)
Cho Nam-joo is a former television scriptwriter. In the writing of
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 she drew partly on her own experience as a woman who quit her job to stay at home after giving birth to a child.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is her third novel. It has had a profound impact on gender inequality and discrimination in Korean society, and has been translated into 18 languages.