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Author · South Korea

Pak Wan-seo

Died in 2011

Pak Wan-seo was born on 20 October 1931 in Gaepung, in Gyeonggi, now in North Korea. She entered the Korean literature department of Seoul National University, but the Korean War and the death of her elder brother almost immediately interrupted her studies. She published her first novel in 1970, awarded a prize in a competition run by the magazine Yeoseong Donga, and went on to publish many more, as well as short stories. She died of cancer on 22 January 2011.

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