Born in 1954 on Wando Island in South Jeolla Province, Lim Chul-Woo made his literary debut in 1981 by winning the Seoul Shinmun New Writer’s Contest. His published works include the short story collections Father’s Land, Longing for the South, Stepping on the Moonlight, and Chronicles, Monsters; and the full-length novels Red Mountain, White Bird, The Island, Lighthouse, Spring Days, One Hundred Years Inn, Strange Tales of the Netherworld, and Parting Valley. He has received the Korean Creative Writing Prize, Yi Sang Literary Award, Danjae Literature Prize, Yosan Literary Award and Daesan Literary Award. Lim is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Hanshin University.
