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Hwang Sok-yong

황석영

Born 1943 · South Korea

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    International Booker 2024 · Shortlist

    Mater 2-10

    철도원 삼대 · Cheoldowon samdae

    Hwang Sok-yong · 77 when first published

    Novel · 486 pages · Historical, Family, Politics

    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Youngjae Josephine Bae

    AI-generated summary:A laid-off worker staging a protest atop a factory chimney talks through the cold nights to the dead of his family, three generations of railwaymen whose lives run through a century of Korean history.

  • In English

    Daesan 2001 · Winner

    The Guest

    손님 · Sonnim

    Hwang Sok-yong · 58 when first published

    Novel · 240 pages · Historical, War

    AI-generated summary:Built on the twelve stages of a Hwanghae shaman rite for the dead, the novel goes back to the 1950 massacre in Sincheon, North Korea, where two creeds brought in from outside, Christianity and Marxism, turned villagers against one another.