Han Moo-sook
Han Moo-sook | |
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| Born | October 25, 1918 |
| Died | 1993 (aged 74–75) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | Korean |
| Nationality | South Korean |
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| Hangul | 한무숙 |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Han Musuk |
| McCune–Reischauer | Han Musuk |
Han Moo-sook (1918–1993) (Korean: 한무숙) was a South Korean writer.[1] 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
Han Moo-sook was a reclusive housewife who "whisked away" the first prize in a novel writing contest in the early 1941 [4] 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 sponsored by the newspaper Kukche Sinbo, she received first prize for her full-length novel, And So Flows History. She won the Asia Foundation's Freedom Literature Award for a short story entitled "Abyss" (1957) and the Republic of Korea National Literature Award for her novel Encounter (1986).[5] Han published her first novel, The Changes of History, with Jai-Yaing Press and received popular acclaim. She also published short stories including "Broken Image," "Coming Home," "Stone," "The Emotional Complex," and "A Halo Around the Moon."[3]
Work
Han Moo-sook's fiction often embraces purity through literature. While many Korean writers were enveloped in
Works in English
References
- ^ "한무숙 " biographical PDF available at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c KLTI[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Collected Short Stories From Korea
- ^ In The Depths, Hwimoon (1965)
- ^ "Brother Anthony of Taize". Archived from the original on 2010-10-15. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
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