Ahn Jung-hyo

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Ahn Jung-hyo
Hangul 안정효
Hanja 安定孝
Revised Romanization An Jeong-hyo
McCune-Reischauer An Chŏnghyo

Ahn Jung-hyo (b. December 2, 1941) is a South Korean novelist and literary translator.

Ahn was born in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang University with a BA in English literature in 1965. He worked as an English-language writer for the Korea Herald in 1964, and later served as a director for the Korea Times in 1975-1976. He was Editorial Director for the Korean Division of Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1971 to 1974.

Ahn made his debut as a translator in 1975, when he published a Korean translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. From that time until the late 1980s, he translated approximately 150 foreign works into Korean.

Ahn's first novel was Of War and the Metropolis, now known as White War (하얀전쟁), which was published in 1983 to a chilly critical reception. Ahn translated it into English and had it published in the United States, where it was released by Soho Publishing in 1989 under the title The White Badge. The book was then reissued in Korea as White War in 1993, and was received much more favorably than before.

Ahn received the Kim Yoo-jung Literary Award in 1992.

[edit] Novels

  • White War (1985/1993)
  • Autumn Sea People (가을바다 사람들) (1993)
  • Kalssam (갈쌈) (1987)
  • The Life of the Hollywood Kid (헐리우드키드의 생애) (1992)

[edit] References

Lee, Kyung-ho (1996). "Ahn, Jung-Hyo", Who's Who in Korean Literature. Seoul: Hollym, 13-15. ISBN 1-56591-066-4. 

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