Oh Han-ki () is a South Korean writer. He was born in 1985 in Anyang, South Korea. He graduated in with a degree in creative writing from Dongguk University. His literary career began when his short story, "An Afternoon With a Folded Parasol" (), won the Hyundae Literary Award in 2012. He has published a short-story collection called "The Way of the Righteous" (). He also won the 2016 Young Writer's Award.
When Park Seongwon was a professor of fiction writing at Dongguk University's creative writing program, Oh studied under him and became a writer. He also met his literary partner Jeong Jidon, and formed the group ‘Analrealism’. Currently, Oh works in the marketing department of a coffee franchise. He writes fiction at night. However, it seems that he recently left this position.
Works Short story collections Impersonation (), Hyundae Munhak, 2015
Novels The Man Who Became a Flamingo (), Munhakdongne, 2016
Work in Translation My Clint Eastwood (English)"오한기 | Digital Library of Korean Literature (LTI Korea)". library.klti.or.kr. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
Awards 2012 Hyundae Literary Award
Further reading Seo, Hui-won, "Heterotopia's Architects, Also Known as Hopeful Monsters – On the Short Fiction of Oh Han-ki and Jeong Ji-don", Munhakdongne, Summer Issue, 2015. Kwak, Yeong-bin, "Annotation and Criticism, Between Two Ruins – Analrealism and the Implosion of Criticism", Literature and Society, Summer Issue, 2016. Kim, So-yeon, Kim, Jeong-hwan, and Baek Ji-yeon, "Discussion: New Titles to Watch This Season", Creation and Criticism, Spring 2016. Lee, Su-hyeong, Lee, Sang-woo, and Oh Han-ki, "Strengths/Weaknesses", Literature and Society, Summer Issue, 2013.
References
External links "Impossible to Interpret or Regulate, The First Collections of Young Writers Born in the 80s", Hankook Ilbo, 2015. Lee Dongjin’s Red Library: Kim Jung-hyuk's Shortcut Episode 19 – Writer Oh Han-ki 1, August 2016. Lee Dongjin’s Red Library: Kim Jung-hyuk's Shortcut Episode 20 – Writer Oh Han-ki 2, August 2016. "Sarang", Literatures, Winter Issue, 2015 – Oh Han-ki, This Month's Fiction, January 2016, Moonji.