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Hong Sok-jung (), born in Seoul in 1941, is a North Korean writer. He is the grandson of novelist Hong Myong-hui. He moved to North Korea with his family after the Second World War. He served in the Korean People's Navy, and obtained a degree in literature at Kim Il Sung University. His first published work was a short story, "Red Flower", in 1970. In 1979, he joined the Central Committee of North Korea's official literary organisation, the Joseon Writers' Alliance. In 1993, he published his most successful work, ''Northeaster'', an epic novel. In 2002, he published ''Hwang Jin-i'' (), a historical novel set in the sixteenth century, which depicts courtesan Hwang Jin-i's discovery of the people's starvation and encounters with corrupt officials. ''Hwang Jin-i'' was awarded South Korea's Manhae Literary Prize () in 2005 - the first time it had been awarded to a North Korean writer. An excerpt from the novel was translated into English and published by Words Without Borders (WWB) in ''Literature from the "Axis of Evil"'' in 2006. ==See also== * North Korean literature 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hong Sok-jung」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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