Jeong Chan

Jung Chan (; born 1953) is a South Korean writer.

Life Jung Chan was born in 1953 He debuted in 1983 when his novella The Tower of Language (Marui tap) was published in The World of Language.

Work

Jung was profoundly influenced by the Gwangju Uprising, which occurred while he was working as a reporter for The Dong-A Ilbo. What intrigued Jung was not so much the political issue, but the issues of men confronting death and redemption. Jung's Ice House (Eoreumui jip) and Song of Sadness (Seulpeumui norae) offer a careful meditation upon the language of novels and Owl focuses on the tension between God's silence and the language of corrupt power. In Ice House (Eoreumui jip), what the powerful pursues so relentlessly is ultimately identified as the place of God. While delving into the interchange between the essence and the manifestations of essence, Jung also investigates the problem of fictional language revealed in the novel itself. For this reason, his work is often seen as occupying a middle ground between poetics and novels.

Works in translation The Cozy Path

Works in Korean (partial) Novels The Evening of the World (1998) Gold Ladder (1999) Under the Broom Tree (1999) A Shadow Soul (2000) Short Story Collections The River of Memory (1989) A Perfect Soul (1992) Cozy Road (1995) Dead in Venice (2003)

Awards Dong-in Literary Award