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Han Su-san (born 1946)  is a South Korean writer.

Early years
Born on November 13th, 1946 in Inje, Gangwan-do, Han Soo-san graduated from Chuncheon High School and initially went to college at the Chuncheon College of education in 1965, from which he transferred to Kyunghee University, where he graduated with a degree in Korean Literature. A key moment in Han’s life was in 1981 when he contributed to a serialized novel that satirized then Korean president Chun Doo-hwan. Han, as well as other newspaper workers, was rounded up and tortured by the government. In 1998, he moved to Japan for four years, where he wrote several stories about Korean residents of Japan. Han teaches Korean Literature at Sejong University.

Work
Han Soo-san is known in Korea for his delicate and expressive writing style. Han made his debut as a poet and began publishing works of fiction in the early 1970’s. (minmusa) In 1972 his short story “The End of April” won the Dong-a Daily literary contest. He also won the Korea Daily prize in 1973 for his novel “A Morning in the Season of Reconciliation,” and in 1977 won the “Today’s Writer Prize” for his work “Floating Weeds.” In 1984 he won the Nogwon Literature Prize and in 1991 the Contemporary Literature Prize. Han calls his novel Raven his “life’s work.” It is a multi-volume epic following the lives of Korean men conscripted by the Japanese during the colonial era. It has not been translated into English.

Works in English
Floating Grass (Dong-suh-Mu Seoul; translated by Kim Seong-kon)

Works in Korean (Partial)
The Morning of the Thawing Season (Haebing-gi-ui Achim 1973) Floating Grass (Bucho, 1977) The End of April (Sawol-ui Kkeut 1978) The Street of Desire (Yonmang-ui Geori, 1981) A Street Musician (Geori-ui Aksa, 1986) The Wooden Horse that Went to Sea (Bada-ro Gan Mokma, 1989) A Horserider Passeth ( Maltan Ja-neun Jingada, 1998)