Park Tae-Won
| Park Taewon | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 7, 1909 |
| Died | July 10, 1986 (aged 76) |
| Language | Korean |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Ethnicity | Korean |
| Citizenship | South Korean |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박태원 |
|---|---|
Park Taewon (Hangul: 박태원 7 December 1909 – 10 July 1986) was a modern South Korean writer.
Park Taewon was born in Seoul, Korea on December 7, 1909. Park Taewon’s sobriquets include Mongbo and Gubo. Park graduated from Gyeongseong Cheil High School, and entered Hosei University, Japan in 1930 but did not earn a degree. As a high school student, Park debuted as a poet when his poem “Elder Sister” (Nunim) won honorable mention in a contest sponsored by the journal Joseon Literary World (Joseon mundan); and as a fiction writer in 1929 with the publication of his short story “The Beard” (Suyeom) in New Life (Sinsaeng). Park joined the Group of Nine (Gu-inhoe, a group that also included Yi Sang) in 1930 and devoted himself to fiction thereafter. Upon Liberation in 1945 he became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Korean Writers’ Alliance (Joseon munhakga dongmaeng).
In 1950 Park crossed the 38th Parallel into North Korea where he wrote and worked as a professor at Pyeongyang Literature University. He was purged and prohibited from writing in 1956, but his writing privileges were reinstated in 1960.
Park died on July 10, 1986.
The Korea Literature Translation Institute describes Park's contributions to Korean modern literature:
Novels
Short Stories
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