Cho Se-hui

Cho Sehui was born in 1942 in Korea. He was a member of the “hangul generation,” so-called because its members were the first to be educated in Korean (previous years were under Japanese domination and language, and before this colonial period most scholars had studied Chinese). Cho’s writing is sparse and explicit, though it can also seem surreal. His most famous work is The Dwarf, a linked novel that criticizes Korean society and creates an unsettling narrative, considered one of the critical works of the 1970s. The Dwarf was translated by Bruce Felton and published by University of Hawaii Press in 2006. (Photo credit: courtesy of Yonhap News)