Lee Ho-chol

Lee Ho-chol
Hangeul	이호철
Hanja	李浩哲
Revised Romanization	I Ho-cheol
McCune- Reischauer	Yi Ho-ch'ŏl
See also : Korean name

Lee Ho-cheol or Lee Ho-chol (born March 15, 1932 in Wŏnsan , Chōsen ; † September 18, 2016 ) was a South Korean writer .

Life

Lee Ho-chol was born into a farming family in the port city of Wŏnsan (now North Korea ). In July 1950, when he was a 12th grade student, he was recruited by the People's Army and taken prisoner of war in Kangwon Province . After his release and his later escape to the south, he earned his living as a dock worker or worker in a noodle factory until he was hired as a security guard for the US Army intelligence service .

During this time he began to write novels and short stories . With the publication of Heimatlos in 1955, he made his debut on the literary stage. In 1961 he received the literary prize for young authors for P'anmunjŏm and the 1962 Tongin literary prize for the story Heimatlos . His reputation as a writer did not mean, however, that he gained a foothold in the new society. His life was still that of an uprooted man who had to cope with his life alone and far away from his home, from parents and siblings. Lee's writings are also a documentation of his personal story. What he shows based on his own experiences is the tragedy of Korean history .

Until his death he was committed to founding an academy for Korean literature in Yanbian , i. H. in the autonomous area of ​​the Korean minority in the People's Republic of China . He also campaigned for Korean reunification and visited North Korea several times on the occasion .

Work (excerpt)

Korean

• 나상 ( The Real Face ) Seoul: Munhak yesul, 1957
• 소시민 ( Little People ) Seoul: Singu, 1965
• 사월 과 빙원 ( Ice Field in April ) Seoul: Ŭlyu, 1967
• 탈향 ( Homeless ) Seoul: Munhak yesul, 1955
• 서울 은 만원 (滿 員) 이다 ( Seoul is full ) Seoul: Samsŏng, 1972
• 이단자 4 ( Zwiedenker 4 ) Seoul: Han'guk munhak, 1973
• 닳아 지는 살들 ( Worn down ) Seoul: Sasangge, 1963
• 판문점 ( P'anmunjŏm ) Seoul: Sasanggye, 1961
• 퇴역 선임 하사 ( A retired mate ) Seoul: Koryŏwon, 1989
• 남녘 사람 북녘 사람 ( People from the North. People from the South ) Seoul: Premiumbooks, 1996
• 이산 타령 친족 타령 ( suffering of division, suffering of separation ) Seoul: Ch'angbi, 2001

Film adaptations

• 서울 은 만원 이다 ( Seoul is full ) 1967

Translations

German

• People from the north. People from the south . Bielefeld: Pendragon 2002, ISBN 3-93487223-9 .
• Little people . Bielefeld: Pendragon 2004, ISBN 3-86532004-X .
• Homeless . Großheirath / Gossenberg, OSTASIEN Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-940527-71-4 .

English

• Southerners, Northerners Norwalk: EastBridge 2004

French

• Gens du sud, gens du nord Marseille: Autres Temps 2003

Spanish

• El ciudadano pequeo Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara 1999

Polish

• Pónoc-Poudnie Nobilitas 1999

Awards

• 2012 - 제 53 회 3.1 문화상 예술상 ( Culture and Art Prize "March 1st" )
• 2004 - 독일 예나 대학 프리드리히 실러 메달 ( German Friedrich Schiller Medal of the University of Jena )
• 1998 - 대한민국 예술 원상 ( Artist Prize of the Republic of Korea )
• 1996 - 대산 문학상 ( Taesan Literature Prize )
• 1989 - 대한민국 문학상 ( Literature Prize of the Republic of Korea )
• 1962 - 동인 문학상 ( Tongin Literature Prize )
• 1961 - 현대 문학상 신인상 ( Literature Prize for Young Authors )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 이호철 ( 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 on January 26, 2014 (English) 
2. ↑ Dissident writer Lee dies at 84
3. ↑ Naver: People: 이호철 , accessed July 29, 2013 (Korean).
4. ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Lee Ho-chol ( Memento of the original from February 1, 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 26, 2013. 
5. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: Lee Ho-chol ( Memento of the original from February 1, 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 July 26, 2013 (Korean). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Ho-chol is the first name.