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Park Wan-suh (born 1931)  is a South Korean writer.

Early years
Park Wan-suh (also Park Wan-seo, Park Wan-so, Park Wansuh, and Pak Wan-so) was born in 1931 in Gaepung-gun, Gyeonggi-do in what is now North Korea. Park entered Seoul National University, the most prestigious in Korea, but dropped out almost immediately after attending classes due to the outbreak of the Korean war and the death of her brother. During the war, Park was separated from her mother and elder brother by the North Korea army, which moved them to North Korea. She currently lives in the village of Achui, in Guri, outside of the hustle and bustle of Seoul.

Work
Park did not publish her first work, The Naked Tree, until 1970, when she was 40. Her ouvre quickly grew however and as of 2007 she had written fifteen novels, and 10 short story collections. Her work is “revered” in Korea and she has won many Korean literary awards including, in 1981 the Isang Literary Prize and in 1990 the Korean Literature award. Park’s work centers on families and biting critiques of the middle class. Perhaps the most vivid example of this is in her work The Dreaming Incubator in which a woman is forced to undergo a series of abortions until she can deliver a male child.Her best known works in Korea include 'Bad Luck in the City', 'Swaying Afternoons', 'That Year the Winter was Warm', 'Are you Still Dreaming?'.

Park’s translated novels include “Who Ate up All the Shinga” which sold some 1.5 million copies in Korean ) and was well-reviewed in English translation. Park is also published in “The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea “

Partial list of publications
My Very Last Possession: And Other Stories

The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea

Sketch of the Fading Sun

Three Days in That Autumn

Weathered Blossom (Modern Korean Short Stories)

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel