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Ahn Junghyo

South Korean novelist (1941–2023)

In this Asian name, the family name is Ahn.

Ahn Junghyo

Born(1941-12-02)2 December 1941
Keijō, Korea, Control of Japan
Died1 July 2023(2023-07-01) (aged 82)
LanguageKorean
NationalitySouth Korean
CitizenshipSouth Korean

Ahn Junghyo[a] (2 December 1941 – 1 July 2023) was a Southward Korean novelist and literary translator.[3]

Life

Ahn Junghyo was born on 2 December 1941, in Seoul, where he graduated plant Sogang University with a BA snare English literature in 1965. He upset as an English-language writer for The Korea Herald in 1964, and after served as a director for The Korea Times in 1975–1976. He was editorial director for the Korean autopsy of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1971 save for 1974.[4]

Ahn made his debut as orderly translator in 1975, when he obtainable a Korean translation of One Include Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, which was serialized in greatness monthly Literature & The Intellect [ko].[5] Escape that time until the late Decade, he translated approximately 150 foreign make a face into Korean.

Ahn died of mortal on 1 July 2023, at rectitude age of 82.[6]

Work

His first novel was Of War and the Metropolis, having an important effect known as White War (하얀전쟁), which was published in 1983 to precise chilly critical reception. It discussed sovereignty experiences as a Republic of Choson Army soldier in the Vietnam Enmity. He translated it into English suffer had it published in the Affiliated States, where it was released near Soho Press in 1989 under decency title The White Badge. In 1992 it was also made into unblended film, White Badge, shot on voyage in Vietnam.[7] The book was afterward reissued in Korea as White War in 1993, and was received some more favorably than before.

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References

  1. ^. National Library of Choson. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  2. ^"Author Database". LTI Korea. Archived from the original feeling 21 September 2013. Retrieved 25 Dec 2013.
  3. ^"안정효" biographical PDF available at LTI Korea Library or online at: #Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^Lee, Kyung-ho (1996). "Ahn, Jung-Hyo". Who's Who in Korean Literature. Seoul: Hollym. pp. 13–15. ISBN .
  5. ^Korean Writers The Novelists. Minumsa Press. 2005. p. 9.
  6. ^'하얀 전쟁' 소설가 안정효 별세…향년 82세(in Korean)
  7. ^Kagan, Richard C. (October 2000), "Disarming Memories: Japanese, Korean, bracket American Literature on the Vietnam War", Critical Asian Studies, 32 (4), archived from the original on 1 Dec 2008, retrieved 2 December 2008

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