Han Su-san

Han Soosan is the kind of writer I instinctively trust: born in 1946 in the mountainous Inje County of Gangwon, he built a full literary life as poet, novelist, scholar, and teacher. Winning the Writer of the Year Award back in 1977 tells me his voice was sharp early. There is no flashy data here, and that is precisely the appeal, half a century of patient sentences sitting quietly behind a sparse profile. I am drawn to careers measured in pages rather than headlines, and I would genuinely like to read his work in translation. Quiet endurance in literature deserves far more attention.

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Name (English)

Han Su-san

Name (Japanese)

韓水山

Reading

はん・すさん

Born

November 13, 1946 (age 79)

Origin

Inje County, Gangwon Province, South Korea

Occupation

writer / poet / novelist / literary scholar / university teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

High school

Chunchon High School

University

Kyung Hee University

Awards & achievements

• 1977 Writer of the Year Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han%20Su-san
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%93%E6%B0%B4%E5%B1%B1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15133394

Tags

• Gangwon Province
• writer
• poet
• novelist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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