Ha Chang-soo is a writer and translator (English-Korean). Born in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province in 1960. In 1982 he was conscripted into the Army and served as a soldier on the Central Front. Through experience in the army, decided to become a writer. He made his literary debut in 1987 when his novella “Cheongsanyugam” won the Munye Joongang Literary Award for Best First Novel. Graduated from Young-Nam University with a degree in business administration. He is the author of short story collections, among others – “Daffodil Plucking” (1994), “The Man Who Passed Through Thirty Gates” (2009) and “Moon Chronicles” (2018), and the novels “The Trap Pit” (2002), “Return From Heaven” (2016), “The Labyrinth” (2019) and several others. He is also the recipient of the Hankook Daily Literary Award, an essayist and translator of Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway and Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
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