Jeon Kwangyong
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Jeon Kwangyong (全光鏞, 1919-1988) was a South Korean novelist and scholar of Korean literature. Known as “the author who wrote with his feet”[1] thanks to his habit of personally visiting settings to do research for his writing, Jeon made use of short, unemotional sentence compositions in his work. He began his literary career in 1955 when he won the Chosun Ilbo New Writer’s Contest with the short story “Heuksando” (흑산도 Heuksando Island). His representative works include “Kkeoppittan Ri” (꺼삐딴 리 Kapitan Ri) (1962).[2] Jeon was the recipient of the Dongin Literary Award and the Sasanggye Research Prize.
