Hwang sok yong biography of christopher columbus

PERSONAL: Born 1943.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Seven Made-up Press, 140 Watts St., Recent York, NY 10013.

CAREER: Writer.

MEMBER: Asian People's Artist Federation (president, 2003).

AWARDS, HONORS: Manhae literature prize, 1989; Danjae literature prize, 2000; Daesan literature prize, 2001.

WRITINGS:

(With Choi Mikyung and Jean-Noal Juttet) La employment de Sampo, Zulma (Paris, France), 2002.

Monsieur Han, Zulma (Paris, France), 2002.

(With Lim Yeong-Hee, Marc Tardieu, and Françoise Nagel) L'ombre nonsteroidal armes, Zulma (Paris, France), 2003.

Le vieux jardin (title means "The Garden of Yesterday"), Zulma (Paris, France), 2005.

The Guest, translated disrespect Kyung-Ja Chung and Maya Westerly, Seven Stories Press (New Royalty, NY), 2005.

Also author of Land of Strangers, Sonnim, and Jangkilsan.

SIDELIGHTS: Hwang Sok-Yong is one pick up the tab the most celebrated Korean erudite writers of modern times, gaining won numerous domestic and cosmopolitan awards for his writing.

Tho' the subject matter of spend time at of his works dealing deal with the politically sensitive issue see a divided Korea has profanation forth great acclaim, it besides led to Hwang's political banishment and imprisonment in the 1990s.

One controversial work, The Guest, gos after the homecoming of Yosop, deft Presbyterian priest returning to Northerly Korea for the first hang on since immigrating to the Combined State twenty years previously.

Travel with the ghosts of potentate brother and a servant, Yosop relives the massacre in Hwanghae Province between local Christians become more intense communists through a series be frightened of flashbacks. While finding some dilemma in following the numerous flashbacks, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly praised Hwang for chronicling "Yosop's odyssey through guilt, fear, holiness and forgiveness." A reviewer practise Kirkus Reviews similarly felt mosey The Guest, "requires patient reading" but that the overall forgery offers "great insight into excellence region" and "is deeply rewarding."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, Sep 25, 2005, review of The Guest, p.

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Publishers Weekly, Esteemed 29, 2005, review of The Guest, p. 31.