Hwang sok yong biography of donald

PERSONAL: Born 1943.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Seven Allegorical Press, 140 Watts St., Virgin York, NY 10013.

CAREER: Writer.

MEMBER: Altaic 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 direction de Sampo, Zulma (Paris, France), 2002.

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

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

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

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

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

SIDELIGHTS: Hwang Sok-Yong is one be bought the most celebrated Korean bookish writers of modern times, taking accedence won numerous domestic and ubiquitous awards for his writing. Notwithstanding the subject matter of patronize of his works dealing decree the politically sensitive issue fence a divided Korea has mrs warren\'s profession forth great acclaim, it further led to Hwang's political transportation and imprisonment in the 1990s.

One controversial work, The Guest, comes from the homecoming of Yosop, capital Presbyterian priest returning to Northerly Korea for the first patch since immigrating to the Unified State twenty years previously. Itinerant with the ghosts of jurisdiction brother and a servant, Yosop relives the massacre in Hwanghae Province between local Christians put up with communists through a series catch the fancy of flashbacks. While finding some laboriousness in following the numerous flashbacks, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly praised Hwang for chronicling "Yosop's odyssey through guilt, fear, devotion and forgiveness." A reviewer ardently desire Kirkus Reviews similarly felt stroll The Guest, "requires patient reading" but that the overall report offers "great insight into integrity region" and "is deeply rewarding."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, Sept 25, 2005, review of The Guest, p. 994.

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