Son Chang-seop

Son Chang-seop was born on 20 May 1922 in Pyongyang. He left for Japan in 1936, where he completed his secondary education while working various jobs, then entered Nihon University to study law without completing his course. Returning to Pyongyang in 1946, he crossed to the South in 1948 and made his debut in 1952, recommended by Kim Tong-ni; the review Hyundae Munhak awarded him its new writers' prize in 1955. He suddenly left for Japan in the early seventies, lived there in seclusion under a Japanese name and died in Tokyo on 23 June 2010.

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• Short stories잉여인간Son Chang-seop · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature