Kim Ae-ran

Kim Ae-ran
Hangeul	김애란
Hanja	金 愛 爛
Revised Romanization	Gim Ae-ran
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Aeran
See also : Korean name

Kim Ae-ran

Kim Ae-ran (* 1980 in Incheon ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Kim Ae-ran was born in Incheon in 1980 . Run your collection of short stories , Daddy! ( 달려라 아비 ) was awarded the Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize in 2005. At the time, Kim was twenty-five years old, making her the youngest ever winner. Anthology. In 2008, her story Schwerthieb ( 칼자국 ) was awarded the Lee Hyo-seok Literature Prize, also as the youngest recipient.

The characters in Kim's stories are young people in their twenties moving from the countryside to Seoul . After industrialization and urbanization began in the 1960s, Korean literature regularly addressed young people turning their backs on their homeland to go to Seoul. While this trend continues, literary interest in it has diminished. Kim spent most of her childhood in a small village called Sŏsan and only moved to Seoul in her twenties. The characters and themes of her stories reflect their own experiences in the country and therefore have realistic traits.

She originally studied drama at the university. Her observations of people and situations at the university, portrayed with wit and humor, make Kim's works entertaining.

Work

Korean

Short story collections

• 달려라, 아비 run, dad! (2005)
• 침 이 고인다 The water runs along the mouth (2007)
• 비행운 Airplane Stripes in the Sky (2012)

Published short stories

• 노크 하지 않는 집 The House Nobody Knocked on (2003)
• 성탄 특선 Christmas Special (2006)
• 침 이 고인다 The water runs along the mouth (2007)
• 칼자국 Sword Swipe (2008)
• 벌레 들 worms (2009)
• 큐티클 cuticles (2009)
• 너의 여름 은 어떠니 How is your summer? (2009)
• 네모 난 자리 들 Square rooms (2010)
• 물 속 골리앗 Goliath in the water (2010)
• 여름 의 풍속 Summer Wind (2011)

Translations

German

• Goliath in the water ( 물 속 골리앗 ), translated by David Renz, in: Hefte für Eastasiatische Literatur 54 (May 2013) ISSN  0933-8721

• Run, father, run ( 달려라, 아비 ), translated by Inwon Park (2014), ISBN 978-3-944751-02-3

• My throbbing life ( 두근 두근 내 인생 ), translated by Sebastian Bring (2017), ISBN 978-3-944751-12-2

French

• Cours papa, cours! ( 달려라, 아비 ), Decrescenzo (2012)

Catalan

• Corre, pare, corre! ( 달려라, 아비 ) Godall Edicions (2017), ISBN 978-84-945094-7-6 . ( Introduction )

Spanish

• ¡Corre, papá, corre! ( 달려라, 아비 ) Godall Edicions (2018).

Awards

• 2002: 제 1 회 대산 대학 문학상 소설 부문 ( Taesan University Literature Prize in the Narrative Literature category )
• 2005: 제 38 회 한국 일보 문학상 ( Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize )
• 2008: 오늘 의 젊은 예술 가상 ( Prize for Young Artists of Today )
• 2008: 제 9 회 이효석 문학상 ( Lee-Hyo-seok Literature Prize )
• 2009: 제 27 회 신동엽 창작 상 ( Sin Tong-yŏp novel prize )
• 2010: 제 4 회 김유정 문학상 ( Kim Yu-jŏng Literature Prize )
• 2011: 제 2 회 젊은 작가상 ( Young Writer Prize )
• 2013: 제 37 회 이상 문학상 대상 ( 37th Yi Sang Literature Prize )
• 2013: 제 18 회 한무숙 문학상 ( 18th Han Mu-suk Literature Prize )
• 2014: Prix de l'Inaperçu Étranger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 김애란 Retrieved February 26, 2014 (Korean)
2. ↑ Blurb to: My throbbing life, wages 2017, back cover

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Ae-ran is the first name.