1962년 충남 예산에서 태어났다. 1990년 『문학사상』신인상에 당선되어 작품 활동을 시작했고 오늘의 젊은 예술가상(1994), 이상문학상(1996), 현대문학상(1998), 이효석문학상(2003)을 수상했다. 소설집 『은어낚시통신』 『남쪽 계단을 보라』 『많은 별들이 한곳으로 흘러갔다』 『누가 걸어간다』, 장편소설 『옛날 영화를 보러갔다』 『미란』 『눈의 여행자』 『호랑이는 왜 바다로 갔나』, 산문집 『그녀에게 얘기해주고 싶은 것들』 『어머니의 수저』 등이 있다.

Born in 1962 in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, Yun Dae-nyeong made his literary debut in 1990 by winning the New Writer Award sponsored by the monthly Munhak Sasang (Literary Thought). The recipient of Today’s Young Artist Award (1994), Yi Sang Literary Award (1996), Modern Literature Prize (1998), and Yi Hyo-seok Literary Award (2003), he has authored: short story collections Sweetfish Fishing Reports, Behold the Southern Stairs, Many Stars Drifted to One Place, and There Walks Someone; essay collections Things I Want to Tell Her and Mother’s Spoon and Chopsticks; and novels I Went to See an Old Movie, Mi-ran, A Traveler in the Snow, and Why Did the Tiger Go to the Sea?