Han Su-san

Han Su-san
Hangeul	한수산
Hanja	韓 水 山
Revised Romanization	Han Su-san
McCune- Reischauer	Han Susan
See also : Korean name

Han Su-san (born November 13, 1946 ) is a South Korean author.

Life

Han Su-san was born on November 13, 1946 in Inje County, Kangwon Province . He studied English literature at Kyung Hee University in Seoul. Since 1997 he has been Professor of Korean Language and Literature at Sejong University .

In 1981 he was arrested because the state censors interpreted some of his lines from the serial novel The Streets of Desire in the daily JoongAng Ilbo as mockery of President Chun Doo-hwan . He and his colleagues were detained and tortured for a few days. Traumatized by this event, Han Su-san went to Japan in 1988 and did not return to South Korea until 1992. Writing helped him come to terms with the past.

Han Su-san began publishing in the 1970s and his writing style soon made him a success. Attentive to details, he weaves his poetic writing style into thought-provoking novels, many of which deal with the importance of life. Han Su-san describes the crows ( 까마귀 ), which consists of five volumes, as his life's work. It is about the life of Korean men who were deported to Japan for forced labor during the Japanese colonial era .

Work

Korean

• 부초 Puch'o (1977)
• 사월 에 끝 end of April (1978)
• 이별 없는 아침 A Morning Without Farewell (1984)
• 거리 의 악사 Street Musician (1986)
• 바다 로 간 목마 The wooden horse that ran to the sea (1989) ISBN 8972080217
• 사랑 의 이름 으로 In the Name of Love (1996) ISBN 9788970122151
• 말 탄 자는 지나가 다 Rider passing (1998) ISBN 9788937403088
• 4 백년 의 약속 400 Year Promise (1999) ISBN 9788930050678
• 밤 기차 Night train (1999) ISBN 9788986156690
• 단순 하게 조금 느리게 Just a little slower (2000) ISBN 8973373307
• 내 삶 을 떨리게 하는 것들 Things That Tremble My Life (2001) ISBN 9788973373642
• 까마귀 Crows (2003) 5 volumes
• 용서 를 위하여 Forgiveness (2010) ISBN 9788973370702

Translations

German

• End of a performance , Pendragon Verlag (2002) ISBN 392909682X

English

• Floating Grass , Dong-Suh Munhaksa (1990)

Awards

• 1977: 제 1 회 오늘 의 작가상 ( today's author's award )
• 1984: 제 4 회 녹원 문학상 ( Nogwon Literature Prize )
• 1991: 제 36 회 현대 문학상 ( Prize for Contemporary Literature )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Naver 인물 검색: 한수산 Retrieved February 24, 2014 (Korean)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Author Database of the LTI Korea: Han Su-san ( 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 24, 2014 (English) 
3. ^ The Korea Herald : "Han explores love, forgiveness" , accessed on February 24, 2014 (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Han is the family name here, Su-san is the first name.