Cho Hae-jin explained

Cho Hae-jin[1] (born 1976) is a South Korean writer.

Life

Cho Hae-jin was born in 1976 in Seoul, and graduated from the Ewha Womans University in education, and then graduated from the same university's graduate school in Korean literature. She began her literary career in 2004 when she won the Munye Joongang Literary Award for Best First Novel.[2]

In late 2008, she taught students in Korean studies at a university in Poland, working as a Korean language teacher for about a year. At this time she read an article about North Korean defectors in Belgium,[3] and this led to the publication of her second novel I Met Lo Kiwan (로기완을 만났다).[4]

In 2013, I Met Lo Kiwan (로기완을 만났다) won the 31st Sin Dong-yup Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the 17th Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award for short story "Sanchaekja-ui haengbok" (산책자의 행복 Happiness of a Walker).[5]

Writing

Literary critic Shin Hyeongcheol wrote in the commentary for Cho Hae-jin's first novel that "this author writes only about those that are physically dying, or are already dead socially."[6] Also, literary critic Go Inhwan has stated of Cho's novels that they "start from the interest on the lives of others, and then through the painful process of seeping into their lives, they allow the readers to become infused in their inner selves with the lives of others", and that they have "blindingly clear patterns of communication that are engraved in the inner sides of readers."[7]

Cho has clearly stated her opinion on literature, saying "fundamentally, literature, and also literature's identity, is like this. Dealing with the nameless people, and the problem of status and ethics, I believe, is not only literature's nature, but a common topic for all writers. Because those that don’t lack anything I'm sure the other media will remember on their own."[8]

Works

Short story collections

Novels

Works in translation

Awards

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 조해진 Digital Library of Korean Literature (LTI Korea). library.ltikorea.or.kr. en. 7 December 2017.
  2. News: Cho Haejin. Korean Literature Now. 10 November 2019. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20171207140254/http://koreanliteraturenow.com/profile/cho-haejin. 7 December 2017. dead.
  3. News: Significance of North Korean Defectors in Fiction. Korean Literature Now. 10 November 2019. en. 10 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191110100159/https://koreanliteraturenow.com/essay/musings/significance-north-korean-defectors-fiction. dead.
  4. News: The Journey to Meet Lo Kiwan. Korean Literature Now. 10 November 2019. en. 10 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191110100112/https://koreanliteraturenow.com/writers-note/cho-haejin-journey-meet-lo-kiwan. dead.
  5. News: [공개인터뷰 나는 왜 대담]나는 왜 약자들의 이야기에 귀 기울이는가 – 사이버문학광장 문장 웹진]. 7 December 2017. ko-KR. 10 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191110100137/https://webzine.munjang.or.kr/archives/10687. dead.
  6. Web site: 아무도 보지 못한 숲. mbook.interpark.com. ko. 7 December 2017.
  7. News: 17 October 2008. 세상서 지워져가는 벼랑끝 인생들. .
  8. News: [공개인터뷰 나는 왜 대담]나는 왜 약자들의 이야기에 귀 기울이는가 – 사이버문학광장 문장 웹진]. 7 December 2017. ko-KR. 10 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191110100137/https://webzine.munjang.or.kr/archives/10687. dead.
  9. Web site: Я встретила Ро Кивана Digital Library of Korean Literature (LTI Korea). library.ltikorea.or.kr. en. 7 December 2017.

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