Kim Daeun studied French Language Education at Ewha Womans University, and French Literature in the graduate school of her alma mater. She received her doctoral degree from University Paris 8 in French literature. Her first novel was The Country That Resembles You, which won the third People Literary Award sponsored by the Kukmin Ilbo in 1996. Her other novels include Treacherous Love Letters, The Secret of Huminjeongeum, Mysterious Love Letters, Lovebug, Petite Intellectuals’ Blues, Dangerous Imagination, and The Woman in a Blue Note. She has also published her essays in Attention-grabbing Neologisms and Cultural Phenomena, When Are You Happiest?, Writers’ Love Letters, Writers’ Letters to Friends, Writers’ Travel Notes, and From the Sun to People. She has also written and published her books in French: Imagination Dangereuse, and Madame, and she translated L’autre Cap, Eperons, and Modernite Modernite from French into Korean. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Department at Chugye University for the Arts.