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List Of Korean Novelists
This is a partial list of Korean novelists. A *Ahn Jung-hyo * Ahn Soo-kil B * Bae Su-ah * Baek Minseok *Bang Hyun-seok * Bang Young-ung * Bok Koh-il C *Jeong Chan (author) * Cheon Myeong-kwan * Cho Hae-il *Choi In-ho *Choi Il-nam * Choi In-hun *Choi Soo-cheol *Chae Man-shik *Cho Se-hui * Cho Seon-jak *Cho Sung-ki * Choe Yun *Chun Woon-young G *Gong Ji-young *Gong Sun-ok * Gu Hyo-seo H *Ha Geun-chan *Ha Seong-nan *Hailji *Han Chang-hun *Han Kang * Hyun Kil-Un *Han Mahlsook * Han Moo-sook *Han Sorya * Han Su-san *Heo Gyun * Hong Sung-won *Hwang Suk-young *Hwang Sun-mi *Hwang Sun-won *Hyun Jin-geon I * Im Chul-woo J *Jang Eun-jin *Jang Jeong-il *Jeon Gyeong-rin * Jeon Sang-guk *Jeong Do-sang *Jo Jung-rae *Jo Kyung-ran *Jung Eun-gwol *Jung Ihyun * Jung Hansuk * Jung Mi-kyung * Jung Young-moon K *Kang Kyeong-ae *Kang Sok-Kyong * Kang Younghill *Kang Young-sook * Kim Ae-ran * Kim Byeol-ah * Kim Chae-won *Kim Chi-won * Kim Dong-in *Kim Dong-ni * Kim Gu-yong * Kim G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahn Jung-hyo
Ahn Junghyo (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean novelist and literary translator."안정효" biographical PDF available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Life He was born December 2, 1941, in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang University with a BA in English literature in 1965. He worked as an English-language writer for the ''Korea Herald'' in 1964, and later served as a director for the ''Korea Times'' in 1975-1976. He was Editorial Director for the Korean Division of ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' from 1971 to 1974. He made his debut as a translator in 1975, when he published a Korean translation of '' One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which was serialized in the monthly '. From that time until the late 1980s, he translated approximately 150 foreign works into Korean. Work His first novel was ''Of War and the Metropolis'', now known as ''White War'' (''하얀전쟁' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cho Sung-ki
Cho Sung-ki is a South Korean writer. Life Cho Sung-ki was born March 30, 1951, in Goseong, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. He attended Busan Middle School and Gyeonggi High School where he put himself through a strenuous self-training period reading nearly a thousand pieces of fiction, literary criticism and poetry while teaching himself grammar by hand-copying an entire grammar book. Cho also struggled with his sexual urges and found some refuge in religion. Cho entered Seoul National University and graduated with a degree in Law. He also received a graduate degree from Presbyterian Divinity School. He made his literary debut in 1971, winning the New Spring Literary Contest sponsored by The Dong-a Ilbo with a short story called “Kaleidoscope” (Manhwagyeong), but remained virtually silent for the next fourteen years."조성기" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: Work Cho's literature, both novels and short stories, focus on the revelation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Moo-sook
Han Moo-sook (1918-1993) () was a South Korean writer. Her name may also be rendered in English as "Han Musuk", "Han Moo-suk", "Han Musook", "Mu-suk Han" or "Han Mu-suk". Life Han Moo-sook was born October 25, 1918 in Seoul and graduated from Pusan Girls’ High School. She initially studied fine arts but switched to literature after she married Kim Zin-hoong in 1941.Collected Short Stories From Korea She has five children. Active in literary and artistic circles as well, Han Moo-sook held various posts, serving as the director of Korean P.E.N. Club, the National Museum of Korea, and Korean Women Writers’ Assembly. Han died in 1993. Han Moo-sook was a reclusive housewife who "whisked away" the first prize in a novel writing contest in the early 1941 After that she traveled from one literary triumph to another. Han received first prizes in drama competitions with a one-act play, ''Heart'', in 1943 and a four-act play, ''Frost Flowers'', in 1944. In 1948, in a competition sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Mahlsook
Han Malsook (born December 27, 1931) is a South Korean writer. Life Han Malsook was born on December 27, 1931, in Seoul, Korea. Han graduated from Seoul National University with a Linguistics degree and worked in an advisory capacity in the Department of Public Reports. She was also a lecturer at Seoul National University's Music School. Her literary debut was in 1956 with two of her short stories ("The Season in Starlight" and "Precipice of a Myth") that were published in the ''Contemporary Literature Journal'' at the suggestion of Kim Dong-ni."Han Mahlsook" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Han was also a member of the UNESCO Korean Committee. Malsook is married to ''gayageum'' musician Hwang Byungki and their eldest son is mathematician Jun-Muk Hwang Jun-Muk Hwang (; born 27 October 1963) is a South Korean mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry and complex differential geometry. Personal life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Kang
Han Kang (; born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer. She won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for ''The Vegetarian'', a novel about a woman's descent into mental illness and neglect from her family. The novel is also one of the first of her books to be translated into English. Life Han Kang is the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won. She was born in Gwangju and at the age of 10, moved to Suyuri (of which she speaks affectionately in her novel ''Greek Lessons'') in Seoul. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her brother Han Dong Rim is also a writer. She began her published career when five of her poems, including "Winter in Seoul," were featured in the Winter 1993 issue of the quarterly ''Literature and Society''. She made her fiction debut in the following year when her short story "The Scarlet Anchor" was the winning entry in the ''Seoul Shinmun'' Spring Literary Contest. Since then, she has gone on to win the Yi Sang Literary P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Chang-hun
Han changhoon (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea,) is a South Korean author. Life Han changhoon was born in 1963 in the seaport town of Yeosu, and graduated from Hannam University with a degree in Regional Development. He made his literary debut in 1992 with “An Anchor” which was published in Daejeon Daily Newspaper. Work The characters in Han's works cherish the memory of the lonely seascape in their hearts: blue-black waves, desolate, wind-swept beach, fishermen's leathery hands—these images constitute the picture of home for those who lead sorrowful lives in the impoverished countryside or at the periphery of glittering cities. ''Island, I Live the End of the World'' feature twelve stories narrated by a man who lives alone on an island. A woman visits the island in remembrance of her lost love; an old man lost at sea drifts as far down south as the island of Jeju Jeju may refer to: * Jeju Island (Jejudo), an island near South Korea * Jeju Provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hailji
Hailji is a modern South Korean writer whose series of "Racetrack" novels created controversy in Korea. Life Hailji was born in 1955 and graduated from Jungang University with a degree in Creative Writing. He then taught high school until 1983, when he left South Korea for France. In France he earned an M.A. from Poitiers University and a Ph.D. from University of Limoges The University of Limoges (''Université de Limoges'') is a French public university, based in Limoges. Its chancellor is the rector of the Academy of Limoges (an administrative district in France for education and research). It counts more than .... He returned to South Korea in 1989. His career as an author began with the publication of his controversial, ''The Road to Racetracks''. Many of his works have been made into movies or plays. As such, Ha is also credited as an important contributor to the development of modern Korean cinema. Work Hailji's first book, The Road to Racetracks'' brought him immediat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ha Seong-nan
Ha Seong-nan (Hangul: 하성란; born 28 June 1967) is a South Korean writer. Life Ha was born in Seoul. She is the oldest of three children and this position resulted in her often taking on the role of a son. Ha wrote through elementary and middle school, with limited success, but began writing short stories in high-school and winning school prizes for them. After graduating from high school Ha worked in a wood-importing firm and entered the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of Arts in 1990. After graduation she worked for Moonji Publishing. During all this time Ha had been writing and she debuted in 1996 with her short story "Grass." She won the prestigious Dong-in Literary Award with her short story "Flowers of Mold," as well as the Hyeondae Literary Award for her story "Alpha's Time." She has also received the Yisu Literary Award the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, and the Dongin Literary Award. In 2007, Ha had her second child, a son, and she currently liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ha Geun-chan
Ha Geun-chan was (Hangul: 하근찬) an early modern South Korean writer. Life Ha Geun-chan was born on October 21, 1931 in Yeongcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do and died on November 25, 2007. At the time Korea was under Japanese colonial rule. Ha was the eldest son of Ha Jae-jung and Bak Yeon-hak. His primary and secondary education was under the aegis of the Japanese "naisen ittai" movement, an attempt by the Japanese colonial government to create Japanese citizens out of Korean ones. In fact, not uncommonly, he did not learn Korean in earnest until he entered higher education, in this case a teacher's college. Ha passed his teacher-licensing exam and began teaching elementary school. Ha entered Dong-a University, but did not complete his studies, and after serving his military service Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, air forces, and naval forces, whether as a chosen job (volunteer) or as a result of an involuntary draft (consc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gu Hyo-seo
Gu Hyoseo is a Korean author. Life Gu Hyo-seo was born in Incheon, South Korea, in 1958. Gu began his literary career in 1987 with the publication of his short story, "Madi" in the JoongAng Ilbo. Since then, Gu has published over twenty novels and short story collections. Work Gu is an eclectic writer. His literary style spans a wide spectrum, to the extent that no other Korean writer is as difficult to pin down as him. He has even been referred to as a “nomadic writer” as a result. To that extent, he has endlessly pursued and experimented with new and diverse styles. Gu's early works are known for their realistic style centered on history and society. His debut work, "Madi," addressed the suffering of women in modern Korean history, from the time of the Korean War to the Gwangju massacre. The stories in his first collection, ''Will the Sunset Come Again'', show how the suffering of modern history lingers in the suffering of individuals. In the 1990s, Gu began to explore a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gong Sun-ok
Gong Seon-ok (born 1963) is a modern South Korean writer. Life Gong was born in Gokseong County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Her father, who abandoned the family early on, led a wandering existence in order to evade creditors, and her mother suffered from weak health. Although Gong was accepted into university, she was ultimately forced to leave because she could not afford the tuition and made a living by working as a factory hand and long-distance express bus attendant. Work Gong portrays traditional life in rural areas in reflection of her hometown in the southern Jeolla province Gong debuted in 1991 with her novella "Seeds of Fire." Gong's female characters reside at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, including the girl in "That’s Life," a squatter living in a freezing derelict apartment building without heat or electricity who ultimately loses her life in a butane gas accident. The city of Gwangju is another reoccurring motif in Gong's work. Her husband is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |