Jo Jung-rae
Jo Jung-rae was born in Suncheon, South Jeolla Province, South Korea on August 17th, 1943 and is the South Korean Writer. At the age of 80, Jo Jung-rae biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jo Jeong-rae's popular multi-volume novels Taebaek Mountain Range (태백산맥, 1983-1989) and Arirang (아리랑, 1995), both of which have come to be considered modern classics since their publication in the 1980s, are widely considered to be the epitome of his talent. With the publication of his novel Han River (한강, 2002), Jo Jeong-rae finally completed his trilogy of works dedicated to modern Korean history. Sales of the series reached record-breaking numbers in South Korea, selling over 10 million copies.
The epic historical trilogy, begun in 1983 and eventually completed in 2002, comprises Jo Jeong-rae's three most well-known novels: Taebaek Mountain Range, Arirang, and Han River. Each novel is over ten volumes in length, and each deals with different aspects of the turbulent history of Korea in the modern era. The first novel, Taebaek Mountain Range, examines the five-year period between the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, with detailed flashbacks and backstory contextualizing the deep ideological conflict that culminated in violence and the division of Korea. The second novel, Arirang, is technically a prequel to Taebaek Mountain Range, and covers the Japanese colonial period of Korean history.
One of the primary themes in Jo Jeong-rae's work, concern regarding the socio-economic roots of the division of Korea and the search for Korean reunification, is also present in his other, shorter works of fiction, particularly his later works, such as "Sorrow, That Shaded Place" (한 그 그늘의 자리), "Land of Exile" (유형의 땅), "Human Stairs" (인간의 계단), and "The Soul of a Barren Land" (박토의 혼). Many of his earlier works, however, such as "A Woman from Cheongsan" (청산댁), "The Violent Instructor" (퐁녀석 교사), "The Shaded Slope" (비탈진 음지), "The Age of Geocentrism" (천동설 시대), and "Foreign Land" (이방지대), tend to reconstruct stories of traditional rustic life, targeting and satirizing the various absurdities of life in a much more general fashion.
- Contemporary Literature Prize (1981)
- Republic of Korea Literature Prize (1982)
- Seongok Literature Prize (1988)
- Dongguk Literature Prize (1989)
- City of Kwangju Arts Award (2001)
- Manhae Prize (2003)