Jo Kyung Ran (this is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean writer. Jo’s work is famous for taking trivial, mundane, and everyday occurrences and delicately describing them in subtle emotional tones. 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.