Kim Ryeo-ryeong

Wandeuk was immediately successful with readers, and was declared the "best novel of the year" in an online poll conducted by bookstore Aladdin, Internet blog portal Egloos and Allblog. The book went on to sell more than 700,000 copies, and was made into a successful film in 2011, titled Punch for its foreign release.

Another novel, Elegant Lies (2009), was adapted into the 2014 film Thread of Lies directed by Lee Han, the same director behind Punch.

She has won multiple prizes for her writing including the Munhak Dongne Children's Literature Prize in 2007 for A Seahorse Lives in My Heart, Ma Hae-song Literary Award in 2007 for The Child Who Brought Memories, and Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction in 2007 for Wandeuk.

Kim Ryeo-ryeong (Korean: 김려령 ; born 1971) is a South Korean writer.

Kim Ryeo-ryeong was born in Seoul in 1971, and grew up in Seoul at her maternal grandmother's house, and in Daejeon at her paternal great-grandmother's house. As Kim grew up listening to old stories told by both her grandmothers, who would cook rice in a big iron pot placed over firewood, her childhood was greatly influenced by her grandmothers. When she lived with her great-grandmother, playing in a village that had many streams, she yearned to become a teacher and a policewoman. She was fascinated by her teacher who knew everything and did anything for her. Filled with the desire to ride in a police car, she once lied that she was lost. Kim and her friends walked into the local police station where a policeman gave them some bread, patiently listened to their stories, and drove them back home in his police car.