- Ahn Soo-kil
Infobox Korean name
hangul=안수길
hanja=安壽吉
rr=An Su-gil
mr=An SugilAhn Soo-kil (1911-1977) was a Korean novelist and journalist who devoted much of his life to depicting the lives of the Korean settlers in
Jiandao , Manchuria. He was born on November 3, 1911 in Hamhŭng, Hamgyŏngnamdo, in present-dayNorth Korea . Graduating from local schools, he attendedWaseda University in Tokyo in the 1930s.Ahn made his debut as an author with the publication of the short story "Director of Red Cross Hospital" (적십자병원장) in 1935. His first novella was "Rice Plant", which was his first work to deal with Manchuria. He began to receive serious critical attention in 1959 with the publication of "Northern Kando", an epic novel which covers four generations of a family's life in Jiandao from 1870 to 1945.
Ahn emigrated to the South after the
liberation of Korea in 1945, and eventually became a professor ofcreative writing atSorabol Art College inSeoul (this later became the Arts faculty ofChung-Ang University ). He wrote short stories including "The Third Type of Man" (제3인간형) which told the story of city life during theKorean War .Awards
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Asian Liberty Literature Prize , 1955
*Seoul City Cultural Award , 1968
*Samil Cultural Award , 1973References
ee also
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List of Korean novelists
*Korean literature External links
* [http://people.empas.com/people/info/ah/ns/ahnsookil/ Empas profile]
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