About Mirinae

Mirinae Lee was born and raised in South Korea.

Her debut novel, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, is an international bestseller and the winner of the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. It has been longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Its rights have been sold thus far in twelve different territories: the US, the UK, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Greece, Romania, Switzerland, Russia, Croatia, France, and South Korea. It is optioned for TV series adaptation in South Korea.

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is inspired by Lee’s great-aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea.

Mirinae lives in Hong Kong with her husband and children.