Song Gisuk


Song Gisuk was a South Korean writer of novels, short stories, and essay.

Life

Song Gisuk was born on 5 July 1935 in Changhung, Jeollanam-do, Korea. Song graduated with an M.A. from Chonnam University in Korea in 1961, and an M.A. from the same university, also in Korean, in 1964. Song worked as a professor at Chonnam National University and was arrested for writing the Declaration of the Democratization of Education. While he was eventually released, he was dismissed from his professorship. In 1980 Song was arrested again for being involved in the 18 May Gwangju Uprising, and released the following year. He then worked as a professor of Korean Literature at Chonnam.

Work

The Korea Literature Translation Institute summarizes Song's contributions to Korean literature:

Works in Korean (Partial)

Novels
  • An Elegy of Charatgol
  • The Amtae Island
Short Stories
  • The White-Clad Race
  • The Goblins Banquet
  • An Unlucky Return to Old Hometown in Glory
  • Why Do Dogs Bark?
  • And Other, And You
  • Terrorist
  • Mother's Flag
  • Blue Bird
Essays