Bae Suah made her literary debut in 1993 with the short story 'The Dark Room of Nineteen Eighty-Eight’ and since then has written several novels and short story collections, along with numerous books from German, including works by WG Sebald, Franz Kafka and Jenny Erpenbeck. In 2003, she received the Hanguk Ilbo literary prize, and the Tongseo literary prize in 2004. Her novel Nowhere To Be Found was longlisted for a PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award.
