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The South Korean Writer Locked Up for Daring to Go North: Hwang Sok-yong’s Memoir The Prisoner

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Article
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/south-korean-writer-locked-daring-go-north-hwang-sok-yongs-memoir-prisoner/
Journal
BLARB – BLOG
Issued Date
September 19, 2021
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
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Book
The Prisoner
Writer
Hwang Sok-yong
Translator
Sora Kim-Russell,Anton Hur

About the Author

  • Hwang Sok-yong
  • Birth : 1943 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Sok-yong
  • Family Name : Hwang
  • Korean Name : 황석영
  • ISNI : 0000000121322250
  • Works : 133
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  • English(English)

The reunification of Germany has long been a topic of interest among South Koreans invested in relations with the North. When the Berlin Wall fell, Hwang Sok-yong was one of the few such South Koreans actually there to witness it. Though known primarily as a novelist, Hwang split his energies between writing and political agitation in the early decades of his now more than half-century-long literary career. He often failed to strike an ideal balance between the two, as he admits in his memoir The Prisoner (수인), recently published by Verso in Anton Hur and Sora Kim-Russell’s English translation. This German sojourn comes early in the book, whose 624 pages (condensed from the two-volume original) ultimately constitute a full autobiography, albeit a chronologically shuffled one. Through these episodes of his life he interweaves the titular narrative, that of his half-decade’s political imprisonment by the South Korean government.

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  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    客人
    Hwang Sok-yong et al / 황석영 / 2006
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    故园
    Hwang Sok-yong et al / 황석영 / 2005
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    悠悠家園
    Hwang Sok-yong et al / 황석영 / 2002

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