Jo Kyung Ran (this is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean writer.<br/>Jo’s work is famous for taking trivial, mundane, and everyday occurrences and delicately describing them in subtle emotional tones.<br/>Her work has won the Munhakdongne New Writer Award, the Today’s Young Artist Award, The Contemporary Literature Award (for the 2003 novella A Narrow Gate), and the Dong-in Literary Award(2008).[12] Her work has been translated into French, German, Hebrew and English.