Cho Se-hui
| Cho Se-hui | |
|---|---|
| Hangeul | 조세희 |
| Hanja | 趙世熙 |
|
Revised Romanization |
Jo Se-hui |
|
McCune- Reischauer |
Cho Se-hŭi |
Cho Se-hui (born August 20, 1942 in Kap'yŏng , Kyŏnggi Province ) is a South Korean writer .
Life
Cho Se-hui was born in Kap'yŏng in 1942. In 1963 he studied creative writing at Sorabol College of Arts , then Korean literature at Kyung Hee University .
In 1965 he won the literary competition of the daily newspaper "Kyunghyang Shinmun" for his story Funeral Ship Without Sails . After his debut, the author continued to work as an office worker. In 1978 his collection of short stories, The Dwarf , was published, the twelve interrelated stories of which deal with the needs of industrial workers in the 1970s.
A year later, Cho received the Tongin Literature Prize for this work . The dwarf has been considered a classic in Korean literary history since its publication and has had a great influence on both readers and writers to this day.
Cho later turned to photography and traveled through South Korea to capture scenes from people's everyday lives.
In 1990 he released White Jacket . Since 1997 he has been working as an editor for the socially critical magazine "Tangdae pip'yŏng" (Current Critique of Time) and since 1999 at the Kyung Hee University, where he studied.
In 2000 he published his photo and short story volume Wurzel des Schweigens with photographic materials about an incident in 1980 in which the police violently ended a demonstration by mine workers. 24 years after its first publication, Der Zwerg had its 150th printing in 2002. On this occasion, the literary magazine "Authors World" (Chakka segye) published a special issue dedicated to the writer Cho Se-hui.
Work
Korean
- 난장이 가 쏘아 올린 작은 공 ( The Dwarf ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa 1978
- 시간 여행 ( time travel ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa 1983
- 내 그물 로 오는 가시고 시 ( The stickleback that comes into my net ) Seoul: Sŏl 1995
- 침묵 의 뿌리 ( Root of Silence ) Seoul: Yŏlhwadang 1985
Film adaptations
- 난장이 가 쏘아 올린 작은 공 ( The Dwarf ) 1981
Translations
German
- The Zwerg Verlag am Hockgraben, Konstanz 1997
- Why Mr A had to give up his life today in: die horen , magazine for literature, art and criticism, 41st vol., 4/96
French
- La Petite balle lancée par un nain Arles: Actes Sud, 1991
- Le Nain Arles: Actes Sud, 1995
Awards
- 1979 - Tongin Literature Prize
Individual evidence
- ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 조세희 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 22, 2014.
- ↑ KTLIT: The Dwarf, by Choi Seh-hui , accessed on July 29, 2013 (English).
- ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Cho Se-hui ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 29, 2013.
- ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: Cho Se-hui ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 29, 2013 (Korean).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cho, Se-hui |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 조세희 (Korean, Hangeul); 趙世熙 (Korean, Hanja); Jo, Se-hui (Revised Romanization); Cho, Sehŭi (McCune-Reischauer) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kap'yŏng , Kyŏnggi |