Ha Seong-nan | |
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Born | June 28, 1967 |
Language | Korean |
Nationality | South Korean |
Citizenship | South Korean |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 하성란 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Ha Seongran |
McCune–Reischauer | Ha Sŏngran |
Ha Seong-nan [1] ( Korean: 하성란; born 28 June 1967) is a South Korean writer. [2]
Ha was born in Seoul. She is the oldest of three children and this position resulted in her often taking on the role of a son. [3] Ha wrote through elementary and middle school, with limited success, but began writing short stories in high-school and winning school prizes for them. After graduating from high school Ha worked in a wood-importing firm and entered the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of Arts in 1990. After graduation she worked for Moonji Publishing. [3]
During all this time Ha had been writing and she debuted in 1996 with her short story "Grass." She won the prestigious Dong-in Literary Award with her short story "Flowers of Mold," [4] as well as the Hyeondae Literary Award for her story "Alpha's Time." She has also received the Yisu Literary Award the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, and the Dongin Literary Award. [5]
In 2007, Ha had her second child, a son, and she currently lives in Mapo, Seoul. [3]
The Literature Translation Institute of Korea sums Ha's work up:
Novels
Short story collections
Other
Translated short stories in magazines/journals/anthologies
Ha Seong-nan | |
---|---|
Born | June 28, 1967 |
Language | Korean |
Nationality | South Korean |
Citizenship | South Korean |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 하성란 |
---|---|
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Ha Seongran |
McCune–Reischauer | Ha Sŏngran |
Ha Seong-nan [1] ( Korean: 하성란; born 28 June 1967) is a South Korean writer. [2]
Ha was born in Seoul. She is the oldest of three children and this position resulted in her often taking on the role of a son. [3] Ha wrote through elementary and middle school, with limited success, but began writing short stories in high-school and winning school prizes for them. After graduating from high school Ha worked in a wood-importing firm and entered the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of Arts in 1990. After graduation she worked for Moonji Publishing. [3]
During all this time Ha had been writing and she debuted in 1996 with her short story "Grass." She won the prestigious Dong-in Literary Award with her short story "Flowers of Mold," [4] as well as the Hyeondae Literary Award for her story "Alpha's Time." She has also received the Yisu Literary Award the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, and the Dongin Literary Award. [5]
In 2007, Ha had her second child, a son, and she currently lives in Mapo, Seoul. [3]
The Literature Translation Institute of Korea sums Ha's work up:
Novels
Short story collections
Other
Translated short stories in magazines/journals/anthologies