Han Su-san is a South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

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Early years

Born on November 13, 1946 in Inje, Gangwan-do, Han Su-san graduated from Chuncheon High School and initially went to college at the Chuncheon College of Education in 1965, from which he transferred to Kyunghee University, where he graduated with a degree in Korean Literature. A key moment in Han's life was in 1981 when he contributed to a serialized novel that satirized then Korean president Chun Doo-hwan

Chun Doo-hwan

Chun Doo-hwan was a ROK Army general and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for his heavy-handed response to the Gwangju Democratization Movement, but later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung,...

. Han, as well as other newspaper workers, was rounded up and tortured by the government. In 1998, he moved to Japan for four years, where he wrote several stories about Korean residents of Japan. Han teaches Korean Literature at Sejong University

Sejong University

Sejong University is a private university located in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The history of Sejong University dates to 1940 when a trust established the Kyung Sung Humanities Institute...

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Work

Han Su-san is known in Korea for his delicate and expressive writing style. Han made his debut as a poet and began publishing works of fiction in the early 1970s. In 1972 his short story "The End of April" won the Dong-a Daily literary contest. He also won the Korea Daily prize in 1973 for his novel "A Morning in the Season of Reconciliation," and in 1977 won the "Today's Writer Prize" for his work "Floating Weeds." In 1984 he won the Nogwon Literature Prize and in 1991 the Contemporary Literature Prize.
Han calls his novel Raven his "life's work." It is a multi-volume epic following the lives of Korean men conscripted by the Japanese during the colonial era. It has not been translated into English.

Works in Korean (Partial)

• The Morning of the Thawing Season (Haebing-gi-ui Achim, 1973)
• Floating Grass (Bucho, 1977)
• The End of April (Sawol-ui Kkeut 1978)
• The Street of Desire (Yonmang-ui Geori, 1981)
• A Street Musician (Geori-ui Aksa, 1986)
• The Wooden Horse that Went to Sea (Bada-ro Gan Mokma, 1989)
• A Horserider Passeth (Maltan Ja-neun Jingada, 1998)

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