Bandi (Author)
Bandi ( Korean 반디 [ pa̠n.di ], RR bandi, MR pandi, YR panti ' glow worms ', * probably 1950 in Hamgyeong Province , North Korea ) is the pseudonym of an unknown writer .
Under this pseudonym, a volume of short stories was published in South Korea in 2014 with the title 고발 ( RR gobal, MR kobal, YR kopal ), which means “ indictment ; Reporting ; Whistleblowing 'means. It contains seven short stories that were written in the 1990s and provide an insight into the painful everyday life of the North Korean population. The rights to the book have been sold in more than 20 countries. In May 2017 it was published by Piper Verlag, translated into German by Ki-Hyang Lee under the title Denunciation .
To the German edition has Thomas Reichart , East Asia - correspondent of the ZDF , a foreword written. Afterwards, the manuscripts of the seven stories were smuggled out of North Korea with the help of a South Korean refugee aid organization. According to its chairman, Bandi is a writer who still lives in North Korea and is recognized by the government there. He is a member of the Central Committee of the North Korean Writers' Association. Before publication, biographical and geographical details that could have provided information about the author were changed to protect Bandi from persecution by the North Korean state.
Works
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고발. 조갑제 닷컴, 2014, ISBN 979-11-85701-02-8 .
- German: Denunciation. Stories from North Korea. From the Korean by Ki-Hyang Lee; with a foreword by Thomas Reichart and an afterword by Do Hee-Yoon. Piper Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-05822-3 .
Web links
- https://www.piper.de/autoren/bandi-4909
- https://www.piper.de/aktuelles/buchblog/leben-in-nordkorea-bandis-erzaehler-aus-der-diktatur-unter-kim-jong-un
- Alex Rühle : North Korea's first literary dissident. In: www.sueddeutsche.de . May 6, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
- Christiane Pöhlmann: Nobody steps out of line. In: www.taz.de . May 7, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
- Eric Ballbach in conversation with Frank Meyer: Stories from the gloomy everyday life in North Korea. In: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de . May 30, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
- Rayk Wieland: "Denunciation" - stories from North Korea. In: ttt - title, theses, temperaments . Das Erste , ARD -Mediathek, August 21, 2017, accessed on August 28, 2017 .
- Interviews about Bandi with ZDF correspondent Thomas Reichart and Bandi publisher Felicitas von Lovenberg in www.buchszene.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.chogabje.com/shop/shop_viw.asp?sBidx=96
- ↑ https://www.piper.de/aktuelles/buchblog/leben-in-nordkorea-bandis-erzaehler-aus-der-diktatur-unter-kim-jong-un
- ↑ 고발. In: National Institute of Korean Language's Korean-English Learners' Dictionary. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
- ^ Bandi: Denunciation. Stories from North Korea , Piper Verlag, Munich 2017, p. 6f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bandi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | probably a North Korean writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |