The Consultant: The darkly funny, satirical Korean thriller

About Seong-sun Im

Im Seong-sun's writing career took off with his Segye Literary Award winning novel The Consultant in 2010. Ever since he's written an array of critically acclaimed diverse fiction and nonfiction such as a short story collection The Sheeple Wandering a Gallery and their Predators novels Moon Geunyoung is in Danger Rather Kind People Live Here The Arctic Ocean The Paragon of Self Improvement and Ouroboros and recently an essay collections Third Wheel of No Use. In 2019 he received the Young Writer's Award and the Korean Sci-fi Award. An Seon Jae (aka Brother Anthony of Taizé) was born in England in 1942. He studied at Queen's College Oxford. He joined the Community of Taizé in 1969. He has been living in Korea since 1980 and taught English Literature at Sogang University where he is now an Emeritus Professor until he retired in 2007. He is also a chair-professor at Dankook University. He has translated works by many major Contemporary Korean writers mostly poetry publishing well over 50 volumes. He served as President of the Royal Asiatic Society (Korea) for ten years and is now its Present Emeritus. He was awarded an Honorary MBE in 2015. His homepage URL is http://anthony.sogang.ac.kr/