Kim Yeon-su

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Kim Yeon-su (2004)
Korean spelling
Hangeul	김연수
Revised Romanization	Gim Yeon-su
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Yŏnsu
See also : Korean name

Kim Yeon-su (* 1970 in Kimch'ŏn , Kyŏngsangbuk-do ) is a South Korean writer.

Life

Kim Yeon-su was born in 1970 in Kimch'ŏn , North Kyŏngsang Province , and studied English at Sungkyunkwan University .

His literary activity began with the publication of poems in the summer 1993 edition of the magazine "Chakka segye" ( World of Writers ). In 1994 he was awarded the magazine's literary prize for his novel When Walking on the Masks . In 2001 he received the Tongsŏ Literature Prize for Goodbye and Yi Sang , and in 2003 he received the Tong-in Literature Prize for When I Was Still a Child . So far he has published six novels and a collection of essays entitled Writings of the Young .

Kim Yeon-su said he was "born the youngest son of a baker and ate more pastries than one can eat in his life," and said pastry influenced his character, like this he was "round, gentle, and pliable ".

He was actually more level-headed and interested in science, but changed after reading the poems of Yi Sang , Kim Su-yŏng and Kim Chi-ha .

He remembers the day he took the literature route as follows: “When I matriculated at university, I chose astronomy as a subject , but in the end I studied English . In the broadest sense there is no difference between these two subjects. "

The noticeable uncertainty in the age of discontinuity seems to have strongly influenced Kim Yeon-su in his literary work. He once wrote: “The 80s were real, the 90s only existed as a shadow.” In Korean society in the 80s, it took a lot of courage to read a book about socialism . Kim Yeon-su went to university in the late 1980s and read a lot; In his notebook he recorded numerous thoughts, such as those on Karl Marx .

In the early 1990s he had the shocking experience that, unlike in the past, he watched music videos on cable TV through the night and passed his time playing computer games .

The uncertainty that resulted from this change became an important driver for his writing. Kim Yeon-su loves “the food of foreign regions, the Greek sorbas , old trees, constellations that can be seen with the naked eye, poems from the Tang Empire in Chinese, Sŏgwip'o in winter, T'ongyŏng in spring and Kyŏngju in the summer ", and he hates" phone calls that spread rumors, people who say they want to die, drinking bouts that make someone cry and worrying for a long time. "

His activities u. a. as a poet, writer, pop music critic and journalist show his wide range of interests. The latter is also evident in his works, which range from pop songs, films, comics to poems. His strength lies in searching, learning, and eventually writing novels.

In 2004, for example, he traveled to Yanbian , China , to write a novel. There he learned the Chinese language and looked for material for his novel. He recently started a serialized novel that tells the story of Koreans in Manchuria in the 1920s and 1930s and the Chinese soldiers of the People's Liberation Army , all of whom were involved in the Korean War .

Work

Volumes of stories

• Twenty years old ( Sŭmu sal , Munhakdongne, 2000) ISBN 978-89-8281-269-9
• When I was a child ( Nae-ga ajik aiyŏssŭl ttae , Munhakdongne, 2002) ISBN 978-89-8281-593-5
• I am a phantom writer ( Na-nŭn yurŏng chakka imnida , Changbi, 2005) ISBN 978-89-364-3685-8

Novels

• Point at the masks while walking ( Kamyŏn-ŭl karik'imyŏ kŏdki , Segyesa, 1994) ISBN 978-89-338-0052-2
• Federal road no.7 ( 7-bŏn kukdo, Munhakdongne , 1997) ISBN 978-89-8281-086-2
• Goodbye, Lee Sang ( Kkutppai Yi Sang, Munhakdongne , 2001) ISBN 978-89-8281-358-0
• Is that love, Sŏnyŏng? ( Sarangirani Sŏnyŏng-a , Chakka chŏngsin, 2003) ISBN 978-89-7288-197-1

Translations into German

• I am a phantom writer (OSTASIEN Verlag, 2014) ISBN 978-3-940527-75-2
• Falscher Herzen Rat (Booklets for East Asian Literature, 47, 2009) ISBN 978-3-89129-986-9

Awards

• 1994: Chakka Segye Literature Prize
• 2001: Tongsŏ Literature Prize
• 2003: Tong-in Literature Prize
• 2005: Taesan Literature Prize in the prose literature category
• 2005: Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for young artists (category literature)
• 2007: Hwang Sun-won Literature Prize
• 2009: Yi Sang Literature Prize
• 2013: EBS Radio Literature Prize, 2nd place

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kim Yeon-su: Maeumsanchaek (Walk through the Heart), in: Writings of the Young 2004.
2. ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Kim Yeon-su ( Memento of the original from October 15, 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 July 2, 2013. 
3. ↑ Kim Yeon-su: Author's Afterword, in: Twenty Years Old, "Munhakdongne", 2000.
4. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: Kim Yeon-su ( Memento of the original from November 11, 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 July 2, 2013 (Korean). 

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, Yeon-su is the first name.