Lee Seung-U was born in 1959. He is a professor of Korean Literature at Chosun University. His novel The Reverse Side of Life was a finalist for the Prix Femina in 2002, and is available in English translation. J.M. Clezio has remarked that Lee is Korea’s strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize.The translator, teacher, and artist Inrae You Vinciguerra has, along with her husband, translated four Korean novels into English. Exhibitions of her artwork have taken place in California, Korea, and China.Louis Vinciguerra is an artist, teacher, and playwright. His stage biography of the German Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse, The Magic Spiral (HH:77), was performed at the 1978 Hesse Centennial Exhibition in West Berlin, Germany.

"Lee has created a fantastical, mythical love story. His romantic images stand as challenges to both tragedy and nihilism... An Asian Romeo and Juliet, a great novel that revives the mythical dimension of love by its rich and powerful images" --Le Figaro

Lee Seung-U was born in 1959. He is a professor of Korean Literature at Chosun University. His novel The Reverse Side of Life was a finalist for the Prix Femina in 2002, and is available in English translation. J.M. Clezio has remarked that Lee is Korea’s strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize.The translator, teacher, and artist Inrae You Vinciguerra has, along with her husband, translated four Korean novels into English. Exhibitions of her artwork have taken place in California, Korea, and China.Louis Vinciguerra is an artist, teacher, and playwright. His stage biography of the German Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse, The Magic Spiral (HH:77), was performed at the 1978 Hesse Centennial Exhibition in West Berlin, Germany.

"Lee has created a fantastical, mythical love story. His romantic images stand as challenges to both tragedy and nihilism... An Asian Romeo and Juliet, a great novel that revives the mythical dimension of love by its rich and powerful images" --Le Figaro

Lee Seung-U was born in 1959. He is a professor of Korean Literature at Chosun University. His novel The Reverse Side of Life was a finalist for the Prix Femina in 2002, and is available in English translation. J.M. Clezio has remarked that Lee is Korea’s strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize.The translator, teacher, and artist Inrae You Vinciguerra has, along with her husband, translated four Korean novels into English. Exhibitions of her artwork have taken place in California, Korea, and China.Louis Vinciguerra is an artist, teacher, and playwright. His stage biography of the German Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse, The Magic Spiral (HH:77), was performed at the 1978 Hesse Centennial Exhibition in West Berlin, Germany.

"Lee has created a fantastical, mythical love story. His romantic images stand as challenges to both tragedy and nihilism... An Asian Romeo and Juliet, a great novel that revives the mythical dimension of love by its rich and powerful images" --Le Figaro