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# Oh Han-ki () is a South Korean writer. He was born in 1985 in
Anyang Anyang ( zh, s=安阳, t=安陽; ) is a prefecture-level city in Henan, China. Geographical coordinates are 35° 41'~ 36° 21' north latitude and 113° 38'~ 114° 59' east longitude. The northernmost city in Henan, Anyang borders Puyang to the eas ...
, South Korea. He graduated in with a degree in creative writing from
Dongguk University Dongguk University () is a private university in Jung District, Seoul, South Korea. A top-tier university acknowledged locally in Korea. It is one of the few Buddhist-affiliated universities in the world, and is a member of the International Asso ...
. His literary career began when his short story, "An Afternoon With a Folded Parasol" (), won the Hyundae Literary Award in 2012. He has published a short-story collection called "The Way of the Righteous" (). He also won the 2016 Young Writer's Award. When Park Seongwon was a professor of fiction writing at Dongguk University's creative writing program, Oh studied under him and became a writer. He also met his literary partner
Jeong Jidon Jeong Jidon is a South Korean writer. He started his literary career by winning the New Writer’s Award from Literature and Society with “Nunmeon bueong-i” (눈먼 부엉이 The Blind Owl). He has called himself an ‘analrealist’. The mem ...
, and formed the group ‘Analrealism’. Currently, Oh works in the marketing department of a coffee franchise. He writes
fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...
at night. However, it seems that he recently left this position.


Works


Short story collections

* ''Impersonation'' (), Hyundae Munhak, 2015


Novels

* ''The Man Who Became a Flamingo'' (), Munhakdongne, 2016


Work in Translation


''My Clint Eastwood''
(English)"오한기 , Digital Library of Korean Literature (LTI Korea)".
library.klti.or.kr. Retrieved 2017-11-29.


Awards

* 2012 Hyundae Literary Award


Further reading

* Seo, Hui-won, "Heterotopia's Architects, Also Known as Hopeful Monsters – On the Short Fiction of Oh Han-ki and Jeong Ji-don", Munhakdongne, Summer Issue, 2015. * Kwak, Yeong-bin, "Annotation and Criticism, Between Two Ruins – Analrealism and the Implosion of Criticism", Literature and Society, Summer Issue, 2016. * Kim, So-yeon, Kim, Jeong-hwan, and Baek Ji-yeon, "Discussion: New Titles to Watch This Season", Creation and Criticism, Spring 2016. * Lee, Su-hyeong, Lee, Sang-woo, and Oh Han-ki, "Strengths/Weaknesses", Literature and Society, Summer Issue, 2013.


References


External links


"Impossible to Interpret or Regulate, The First Collections of Young Writers Born in the 80s"
Hankook Ilbo, 2015.
Lee Dongjin’s Red Library: Kim Jung-hyuk's Shortcut Episode 19 – Writer Oh Han-ki 1
August 2016.
Lee Dongjin’s Red Library: Kim Jung-hyuk's Shortcut Episode 20 – Writer Oh Han-ki 2
August 2016.
"Sarang", Literatures, Winter Issue, 2015 – Oh Han-ki, This Month's Fiction
January 2016, Moonji. {{DEFAULTSORT:Oh, Han-ki Living people 1985 births 21st-century South Korean male writers