Sang Young Park

Biography

Sang Young Park is a South Korean novelist and screenwriter, known for Love in the Big City, a bestselling novel translated into more than twenty languages worldwide. The book was longlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, and the Prix Médicis Étranger, establishing him as a major contemporary voice in world literature. Love in the Big City has also been adapted for the screen as both a television series and a film, and has been broadcast globally in over 190 countries. 

Park has received significant literary recognition in Korea, including the SinDongyup Prize for Literature, the Heo Gyun Literary Award, the Young Writer Award (Grand Prize), and the Munhakdongne New Writer Award. He is the author of several novels and memoirs, including No Snacking Tonight (2020), Lie Like Lines (2021), and On Trust (2022). 

His work is widely praised for its sharp emotional insight, wit, and nuanced exploration of urban life, intimacy, and identity in contemporary society, and continues to attract a growing international readership and critical acclaim.