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Djuna (Korean: 듀나) is a South Korean pseudonymous science fiction writer and film critic. Djuna is managed by Greenbook Agency.




Life


The identity of Djuna is unknown, and Djuna prefers the personal pronoun "they." They publish all their works under the name Djuna, and interviews are done by e-mail correspondence or online chats. For some of their early works, they used the name Lee Youngsoo, but it is generally taken as a pseudonym, because Lee Youngsoo is one of the most common names in Korea.
They explain the name Djuna as coming from writer Djuna Barnes and a character in a work by the pseudonymous Ellery Queen. The capitalization was due to Djuna's belief that using lowercase letters for proper nouns was "awkward".
In 2020, Djuna succeeded Soyeon Jeong as the second president of the Science Fiction Writers Union of the Republic of Korea, leaving office in 2021.




Works


Djuna debuted in 1997 with the anthology Butterfly War.
In 2023 their first major work has been translated to English (the novel Counterweight).




Reception


Since the 1990s, Djuna has been one of the most prolific and important writers in the South Korean science fiction field. Djuna been described as "a literary giant in Korea".




Selected works


They have published seven short story collections, six novels, and two essays.




= Short story collections

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Butterfly War (나비전쟁) 1997
Duty Free Area (면세구역) 2000
Pacific Express (태평양 횡단 특급) 2002
Proxy War (대리전) 2006
Teeth of the Dragon (용의 이) 2007
Bloody Battle on the Broccoli Field (브로콜리 평원의 혈투) 2011
Not Yet a God (아직은 신이 아니야) 2013




= Novels

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Molok (몰록) 2001
The Shadow of Spiderweb (거미줄 그늘) 2009
Jezebel (제저벨) 2012
The World of Mint (민트의 세계) 2018
There I Existed In Arcadia (아르카디아에도 나는 있었다) 2019
Counterweight (평형추) 2021.




= Film criticism

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Complaining over the Screen (스크린 앞에서 투덜대기) 2001
Film Shakespeare (필름 셰익스피어) 2005
Genre Encyclopedia: SF Film (장르백서 2: SF영화) 2015




= Non-fiction

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Possible Spaces of Dreams: Djuna Essay (가능한 꿈의 공간들:듀나 에세이) 2015




References






External links


Djuna, South Korea’s Enigmatic Sci-Fi Legend, Opens Up About Their New Book Wired, 11 July 2023

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