Ha Seong-nan


Ha Seong-nan is a South Korean writer.

Life

Ha was born in Seoul. She is the oldest of three children and this position resulted in her often taking on the role of a son. Ha wrote through elementary and middle school, with limited success, but began writing short stories in high-school and winning school prizes for them. After graduating from high school Ha worked in a wood-importing firm and entered the Department of Creative Writing at the Seoul Institute of Arts in 1990. After graduation she worked for Moonji Publishing.
During all this time Ha had been writing and she debuted in 1996 with her short story "Grass." She won the prestigious Dong-in Literary Award with her short story "Flowers of Mold," as well as the Hyeondae Literary Award for her story "Alpha's Time." She has also received the Yisu Literary Award the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, and the Dongin Literary Award.
In 2007, Ha had her second child, a son, and she currently lives in Mapo, Seoul.

Work

The Literature Translation Institute of Korea sums Ha's work up:

Awards