Kim Yi-seol is an important feminist writer in South Korea, with a reputation for stating the case of the disenfranchised and depicting the violence done to women and their bodies. Her debut story "Thirteen" won the 2006 Seoul Shinmun’s New Writer’s Contest. Since then, she has received the Hwang Sun-won Literary Award for New Literature, and was a finalist for the Munhakdongne Young Writer’s Award. She is the author of What No One Tells You and Bad Blood, among others, and her work has been translated into French and German.