Panmunjom and Other Stories

Lee Ho-Chul was born in Weonsan, in what is now North Korea, in 1932. He served in the North Korean Army in the Korean War until taken prisoner. He made his way South by boat in 1950 and worked in the mid-1950s as a guard at a U.S. Army base. He debuted on the literary scene in 1955 with his short story ¿Away From Home,¿ embarking on a remarkable literary career that has now moved into its fifth decade. Lee is a member of the Republic of Korea National Academy of the Arts and the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Modern Literature Award for ¿Panmunjom¿ and the Dongin Prize for ¿Wasting Away.¿ Lee Ho-Chul has lived in the South, forcibly separated from his family in the North, for over fifty years. Lee¿s fiction movingly portrays the social and political conditions he has lived through and has made him one of Korea's leading literary figures today.Lee, Ho-Chul is the author of 'Panmunjom and Other Stories', published 2004 under ISBN 9781891936845 and ISBN 1891936840.