Choi In-ho

Choi In-ho
Hangeul	최인호
Hanja	崔仁浩
Revised Romanization	Choe In-ho
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Inho
See also : Korean name

Choi In-ho (born October 17, 1945 in Seoul , † September 25, 2013 ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Choi studied English literature at Yonsei University .

In 1963 he took part in a Hankook Ilbo literary competition with his short story In the Hole in the Wall (벽 구멍 으로) and was among the finalists, but his story was allegedly not published, so that his official debut falls in 1967, when he won the prize for young authors at a Chosun Ilbo competition with an apprentice patient (견습 환자) .

His early works deal with people during industrialization, while showing a satirical picture of bourgeois consumption. In the mid-1970s, Choi In-ho began to deal with the problem of alienation. This is also the case in his famous novel Deep, Blue Night (깊고 푸른 밤), which is about a trip by two Koreans through the USA.

Many of Choi In-ho's works are bestsellers and some were used as models for film or television plays. The author is therefore also considered an icon of the 1970s. One example of his success is the novel Heimat der Sterne (별 들의 고향), which criticizes the male-dominated society of South Korea. A broken hearted woman works in a hostess bar and forms various relationships with men. The book became a bestseller, and the film, released in 1974, was so popular that the main character's name became an expression for young girls in hostess bars.

On September 25, 2013, the writer lost his battle with salivary gland cancer.

Work

Korean

• 타인 의 방 The Other's Room (1972)
• 별 들의 고향 Home of the Stars (1973)
• 우리들 의 시대 Our Generation (1975)
• 내 마음 의 풍차 The windmill in my heart (1975)
• 개미 의 탑 Ant Tower (1977)
• 도시 의 사냥꾼 City Hunter (1976)
• 돌 의 초상 Portrait of a stone (1978)
• 천국 의 계단 Steps into Heaven (1978)
• 불새 Phoenix (1980)
• 위대한 유산 The Great Legacy (1982)
• 깊고 푸른 밤 Deep Blue Night (1982)
• 가면 무도회 Masked Ball (1983)
• 고래 사냥 whale hunt (1983)
• 겨울 나그네 Winter Walkers (1984)
• 밤 의 침묵 Silence of the Night (1985)
• 지구인 Earthlings (1988)
• 잃어버린 왕국 The Lost Kingdom (1988) 5 volumes
• 저 혼자 깊어 가는 강 I alone a deep river (1989)
• 길 없는 길 Straße ohne Weg (1993) 4 volumes
• 왕도 의 비밀 The secret of the royal road (1995) 3 volumes
• 사랑 의 기쁨 Joy of Love (1996)
• 상도 Sangdo (2000)
• 해신 Sea God (2003) 3 volumes
• 제왕 의 문 Gate of the King (2004) 2 volumes
• 유림 Confucians (2005) 6 volumes
• 어머니 는 죽지 않는다 Mother Did Not Die (2004)
• 제 4 의 제국 The 4th Empire (2006) 3 volumes
• 가족 Family (2009) 2 volumes
• 낯 익은 타인 들의 도시 City of Familiar Strangers (2011)

Translations into German

Stories by the author in:

• Kuh KS (Ed.): Korean Literature Volume 3 , Bonn, Bouvier (1986) ISBN 3-416-01965-2
• Series of publications by the Institute for Korean Culture. 1984/5 , Institute for Korean Culture (1984)
• Series of publications by the Institute for Korean Culture. 1984/7 , Institute for Korean Culture (1984)

Awards

• 1972: 현대 문학상 신인상 ( Literature Prize for Young Authors )
• 1982: 제 6 회 이상 문학상 ( Yi Sang Literature Prize )
• 1998: 제 1 회 한국 가톨릭 문학상 ( Catholic Literature Prize )
• 2003: 제 8 회 현대 불교 문학상 ( Modern Buddhist Literature Prize )
• 2006: 제 6 회 연문 인상 ( Yonsei Literature Prize )
• 2006: 제 5 회 송산 상 문화 부문 ( Song-san Prize in the Culture Category )
• 2011: 제 14 회 동리 문학상 ( Tongni Literature Prize )
• 2013: 제 3 회 아름다운 예술 인상 대상 ( Prize for excellent artists; main prize )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 최인호 , accessed February 25, 2014 (Korean)
2. ↑ Author Database of the LTI Korea: Choi In-ho ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF, accessed on February 25, 2014 (English) 
3. ↑ Author Database of the LTI Korea: Choi In-ho ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 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 February 25, 2014 
4. ↑ Korean Literature in Translation: Deep Blue Night by Choe In-ho , accessed on February 25, 2014 (English)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Chosun Ilbo : "Novelist Choi In-ho Dies of Cancer" , accessed on February 25, 2014 (English)
6. ↑ Korea JoongAng Daily : "Novelist Choi In-ho passes away" , accessed on February 25, 2014 (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, In-ho is the first name.