Yi Daehwan (M) was born in Pohang in 1958. He was the winner of the novel section in a contest held by the International PEN Club Korea in 1980, and the novel section of the 400th issue of Modern Literature commemoration contest in 1989. He has written the short story collections One Small Flag, Poem Inside a Fish's Intestine, the novels Dawn Before Sunrise, Winter House, The Red Whale (a 3-book series), Big Money and a Condom, the bilingual novel, Slow Bullet, the essay White Coal, the critique Critical Biography of Park Taejoon, and more.