JM Lee Author

J.M. Lee’s books have sold millions of copies in Korea, where he was born and raised. He is the author of Broken Summer, currently in production for a television series; Painter of the Wind, which was adapted into an award-winning South Korean television series; The Boy Who Escaped Paradise; and The Investigation, which was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and was the winner of Italy’s prestigious Premio Selezione Bancarella award. Sean Lin Halbert holds an MA in Korean literature from Seoul National University. He is the recipient of the LTI Korea Translation Award for Aspiring Translators, the Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award, and the GKL Translation Award. Artificial Truth is his seventh book in translation. Sean lives in Seoul with his wife and daughter and teaches at LTI Korea Translation Academy.