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Born in 1989, Park Seolyeon made her debut by winning the Silcheon Munhak New Writers Prize in 2015. She is the author of A Magical Girl Retires among other novels and short story collections. In 2018, she won the Hankyoreh Literature Prize for her novel Capitalists Must Starve. Her stories have been translated into Japanese, French, German, and English. She currently lives in Seoul. Anton Hur was born in Stockholm. He is the author of Toward Eternity and has been nominated for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Dublin Literary Award for his various translations including Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park and A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon. He lives in Seoul.
'The exuberant, self-determined protagonist who worked, fought, and loved, captivates readers the whole time.' --Seo Young-In, literary critic 'A weird, delightful little book, simultaneously grim and breezy...A very entertaining read.' -- praise for A Magical Girl Retires, Locus 'As a millennial and lover of all things magical girls, I adored this celebration of all things magical girl and how they might play out in the real world. The illustrations by Kim Sanho took me back to all of my favorite manga I read growing up. This one was such a fun read.' -- praise for A Magical Girl Retires, Book Riot 'Park pictures a world on the brink of collapse, with no one paying the price--and shows what it might take for a millennial to not only survive, but to capture her own dreams and make her life worth living.' -- praise for A Magical Girl Retires, Den of Geek 'Best Books of 2024'
