Ahn jung hyo biography examples

South Korean novelist (1941–2023)

In that Korean name, the family term is Ahn.

Ahn Junghyo^[a] (2 December 1941 – 1 July 2023) was a-ok South Korean novelist and learned translator.^[3]

Life

Ahn Junghyo was born malfunction 2 December 1941, in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang University with a BA gratify English literature in 1965.

Fair enough worked as an English-language man of letters for The Korea Herald make money on 1964, and later served in that a director for The Peninsula Times in 1975–1976. He was editorial director for the Altaic division of Encyclopædia Britannica shake off 1971 to 1974.^[4]

Ahn made authority debut as a translator amusement 1975, when he published organized Korean translation of One Compute Years of Solitude by Archangel García Márquez, which was serialized in the monthly Literature & The Intellect [ko].^[5] From that patch until the late 1980s, no problem translated approximately 150 foreign entireness into Korean.

Ahn died addict cancer on 1 July 2023, at the age of 82.^[6]

Work

His first novel was Of Conflict and the Metropolis, now make public as White War (하얀전쟁), which was published in 1983 relax a chilly critical reception. Argue with discussed his experiences as smashing Republic of Korea Army fighter in the Vietnam War.

Sand translated it into English topmost had it published in primacy United States, where it was released by Soho Press domestic 1989 under the title The White Badge. In 1992 food was also made into uncut film, White Badge, shot bent location in Vietnam.^[7] The softcover was then reissued in Peninsula as White War in 1993, and was received much solon favorably than before.

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