Hong Sok-jung
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Hong Sok-jung | |
Chosŏn'gŭl | 홍석중 |
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Hancha | |
Revised Romanization | Hong Seokjung |
McCune–Reischauer | Hong Sŏkchung |
Hong Sok-jung (Korean: 홍석중), born in Seoul in 1941, is a North Korean writer. He is the grandson of novelist Hong Myong-hui.
Sok-jung moved to North Korea with his family after the Second World War. He served in the Korean People's Navy, and obtained a degree in literature at Kim Il Sung University. His first published work was a short story, "Red Flower", in 1970. In 1979, he joined the Central Committee of North Korea's official literary organisation, the .
In 1993, he published his most successful work, Northeaster, an epic novel. In 2002, he published Hwang Jin-i (Korean: 황진이), a historical novel set in the sixteenth century, which depicts courtesan Hwang Jin-i's discovery of the people's starvation and encounters with corrupt officials. Hwang Jin-i was awarded South Korea's Manhae Literary Prize (Korean: 만해문학상) in 2005 - the first time it had been awarded to a North Korean writer. An excerpt from the novel was translated into English and published by Words Without Borders (WWB) in Literature from the "Axis of Evil" in 2006.
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- Br. Anthony of Taizé, introductory remarks to the excerpt of Hwang Jin-i, in Literature from the "Axis of Evil" (a Words Without Borders anthology), ISBN 978-1-59558-205-8, 2006, pp.99–101.
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