Hwang Sun-won

Hwang Sun-won was born on 26 March 1915 in Taedong district, in South Pyongan. While at school, he published his first poems in 1931 in the magazine Donggwang. He studied English literature at Waseda University and, in Tōkyō, founded a student theatre troupe with two friends. After liberation, he crossed to the South with his family, in 1946 according to Bruce Fulton. A professor at Kyung Hee University from 1957, he never stopped revising his own texts. He died on 14 September 2000.

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• NovelThe Moving Castle움직이는 성Hwang Sun-won · 1968Literature