Author · South Korea
An Su-gil
Died in 1977
An Su-gil was born on 3 November 1911 in Hamhung. His family settled in Manchuria when he was eleven, and he studied there up to middle school before returning to Hamhung. Expelled in 1929 from a high school in Seoul for his part in the Gwangju student movement, he entered Waseda University in 1931, which he soon left. According to the University of Guelph, he was then a schoolteacher and reporter in Gando, where he began to write, and his name was put forward for the Nobel Prize at the PEN congress in Seoul in 1970. He died in 1977.