Pak Tae-won

Pak Tae-won was born in Seoul in 1909, or in 1910 according to the Korean entry devoted to him. Still a schoolboy, he was already publishing verse; he then entered Hōsei University in Japan, without obtaining a degree there, and was a member of the Circle of Nine. A member in 1945 of a writers' alliance, he went over to the North during the Korean War, wrote historical novels there and was sidelined in 1956. According to the Seoul Shinmun, he lost his sight in 1965 and, paralysed after a cerebral haemorrhage in 1968, dictated his last books to his wife. He died on 10 July 1986.

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• NovelScenes from Ch'ŏnggye Stream천변풍경Pak Tae-won · 1936Literature