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Diane Lee (Korean nameː Lee Bong-ju, Canadian nameː Diane Shoar; born August 18, 1974) is a Korean-Canadian novelist. Born in Daegu, South Korea, she moved to Vancouver, Canada in 2001.

She debuted as a novelist in 2019, winning the Segye World Literature Award for . "Diane Lee is the first Korean-foreigner to make her debut in the Korean literature by writing in Korean," it said. "It is meaningful in that it expanded the scope of Korean literature in the global era."  was praised as "a work that proves the novel as a language art, with meticulous sentences that make it impossible to skip a single sentence and tense narratives that reproduce psychological reality."

Currently on the board of directors at Vancouver Chamber Music Society

Works

 * 《Roya》ISBN 9791161570532
 * 《Juya》ISBN 9791161570839

Academic background

 * Graduate work in German Studies University of British Columbia
 * Graduate work in Universität Bonn
 * Seoul National University, Master of Arts

Awards

 * The 15th World Literature Award, 2019