Yoo Hyeonjong [SEP] native language
Yoo Hyeonjong
Yoo Hyeonjong is a South Korean novelist whose works of dramatic historical fiction are well known in his native country.
Life.
A native of Jeonju, the capital of Jeollabuk-do province, Yoo was born into a family of the Gangneung Yu lineage (born 25 February 1939, although another source gives 1940) . With a degree in creative writing from Sorabol Arts College, in the province's former capital, Gwangju, he emerged on the literary stage when his short story, "This Insignificant Stone
division, Yoo Hyeonjong received the New Writer's Prize awarded by the journal Freedom Literature (Jayu munhak) in 1961, the year he graduated from the Creative Writing Department of Sorabol College of Arts.
Yoo Hyeonjong's later works, however, move toward greater theatricality and evince panoramic scope. “Giant” (Geoin), for example, features a protagonist who possesses almost super-human strength and will, and this type of larger-than-life hero makes nearly ubiquitous appearance in Yoo's historical novels. He