Kim Kwang-lim

Kim Kwang-lim
Hangeul	김광림
Hanja	金光林
Revised Romanization	Gim Gwang-nim
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Kwangnim
See also : Korean name

Kim Kwang-lim or Kim Kwang-rim (born September 21, 1929 in Wŏnsan , Hamgyŏng-namdo ) is a South Korean poet .

Life

Kim Kwang-lim was born on September 21, 1929 in Wŏnsan, Hamgyŏng-namdo. Kim attended Wŏnsan Middle School and after moving to South Korea, he graduated from Kukhak University with a degree in literature . In 1966 he published Contemporary Poetry (현대 시학) and received the "Prize of the Korean Poets' Association" and the "Literature Prize of the Republic of Korea". Sliding paper door (문풍지) - 1948 in the "Yonhap sinmun" - and Rose (장미) - in Poems of the Korean War (전시 한국 문학 선 시편) 1955 - were the first poems by Kim to be published. His literary career officially began in 1957 when he published the collection of poems War and Music and Hope and .. (전쟁 과 음악 과 희망 과) together with Kim Chong-sam and Chŏn Pong-gŏn .

His early poems literally overflow with the pain and suffering he had to endure as a result of the Korean War. After the armistice of 1953, Kim's poems showed less interest in issues such as war or Korean society, but an increased interest in depicting phenomena with a focus on visual imagery.

Following the publication of his second anthology The bright shadow of the imagination (심상 의 밝은 그림자) in 1962, he concentrated on the concept of the perfect, pure image. He freed his works of all abstraction and looked for an aesthetic that isolates the image and detaches it from its external semantic connections.

In the 1970s , Kim began to incorporate elements of Sŏn Buddhism into his works. This was the culmination of the poet's efforts to remove prosaic elements and abstraction from his poems and isolate the bare, unobstructed image. Kim is very fixated on perfectly realizing the poetic portrayal of a portrait and creating a profound awareness of the same, which puts his works on a new, metaphysical level. After the publication of his work The Bird Made of Language (언어 로 만든 새) in 1979, Kim tried again to break the boundaries of language and to stretch them to the utmost by radically flattening his language, similar to the practices of Sŏn Buddhism .

Work

Korean

Poetry collection

• 상심 하는 접목 The grieving plug (1959)
• 심상 의 밝은 그림자 The bright shadow of imagination (1962)
• 오전 의 투망 The morning's throwing net (1965)
• 학의 추락 The Fall of the Crane (1971)
• 갈등 Conflict (1973)
• 한겨울 산책 Walk in Winter (1976)
• 언어 로 만든 새 The Bird Made of Language (1979)
• 바로 설 때 팽이 는 운다 The top weeps when standing straight (1982)
• 천상 의 꽃 Heavenly Flowers (1985)
• 말 의 사막 에서 In the desert of words (1989)
• 곧이 곧대로 Indeed (1993)
• 대낮 의 등불 midday light (1996)
• 앓는 사내 The sick man (1998)
• 놓친 굴렁쇠 The Slipped Tire (2001)

Collective poetry collections

• 전쟁 과 음악 과 희망 과 War and music and hope and .. with Kim Chong-sam and Chŏn Pong-gŏn (1957)
• 본적지 Heimat with Mun Tŏk-su and Kim Chong-sam (1968)

Poem anthologies

• 소용돌이 spiral (1985)
• 멍청한 사내 The Dispersed Man (1988)
• 들창코 에 꽃 향기 가 The scent of flowers in the snub nose (1991)

Awards

• 2009 - 제 10 회 청마 문학상 ( Ch'ŏngma Literature Prize )
• 1999 - 대한민국 보관 문화 훈장 ( Order of the Republic of Korea for Services to Preserve Culture )
• 1985 - 대한민국 문학상 ( Literature Prize of the Republic of Korea )
• 1973 - 5 회 한국 시인 협회 상 ( Korean Poets Association Prize )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 하성란 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 4, 2014 
2. ↑ 네이버 지식 백과 (한국 현대 문학 대사전): 김광림 Retrieved February 6, 2014 (Korean)
3. ↑ Author Database of LTI Korea: Kim Gwangrim ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 6, 2014 

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, Kwang-lim is the first name.