DJUNA

Djuna 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.

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.

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

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