Hwang Sok-yong

Hwang Sok-yong was born in 1943 in Xinjing, now Changchun, in Manchuria, and his family returned to Korea at liberation. He left school, spent time in prison for political reasons and then worked in factories and on building sites. He joined the marines in 1966 and served in Vietnam. In 1989 he travelled without permission to Pyongyang, then lived in exile in New York and Germany, and was imprisoned on his return in 1993; a pardon freed him in 1998.

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• Short stories객지Hwang Sok-yong · 1971not translated into EnglishLiterature