Ch'oe Yun is professor of French literature at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. She is the recipient of the 1992 Tongin Literature Prize for "The Gray Snowman" and the 1994 Yi Sang Literature Prize for "The Last of Hanak'o." There a Petal Silently Falls was made into the acclaimed film A Petal. Her translated works can be found in Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology and Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Ficition, expanded edition.