Background
Yoon Dae-nyeong was born in 1962 in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province.
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Education
He graduated from Dankook University with a degree in French Language and Literature. He admitted, however, that in his college days he attended more Korean literature classes than French ones. His habit of reading seems to have been established very early and by the time he attended junior high school, he devoured all the books that he could find around him.
Career
Yoon"s family was semi-nomadic and he lived in a variety of places, but always in poverty. Yoon wrote his first story as a senior high school student.
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Awards
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Young Artist award; Yi Sang Literary Award Spring literary contest sponsored by Daejeon ilbo (1988) Monthly Literature & Thought (문학사상) New Writer's Prize (1990) Today’s Young Artist Award (1994) Yi Sang Literature Award (1996) Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award (1998) Yi Hyo-seok Literary Award (2003) The Yi Sang Literary Award is a South Korean literary award.Young Artist award; Yi Sang Literary Award Spring literary contest sponsored by Daejeon ilbo (1988) Monthly Literature & Thought (문학사상) New Writer's Prize (1990) Today’s Young Artist Award (1994) Yi Sang Literature Award (1996) Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award (1998) Yi Hyo-seok Literary Award (2003) The Yi Sang Literary Award is a South Korean literary award.