About Mirinae

Mirinae Lee was born and raised in South Korea.

Her bestselling debut novel, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, has been longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. 8 Lives is inspired by a story of Lee’s great-aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea. It is available from Harper Perennial in the US and Virago in the UK. The novel’s translations continue to meet readers worldwide, including in Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Denmark, South Korea, and Switzerland.

Mirinae lives in Hong Kong with her husband and children.