Kim Yong-ik

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Kim Yong-ik
Hangeul 김용익
Hanja 金 溶 益
Revised
Romanization 		Gim Yong-ik
McCune-
Reischauer 		Kim Yong-ik

Kim Yong-ik (born May 15, 1920 in Tongyeong , Gyeongsangnam-do , † April 11, 1995 in Seoul ) was a Korean - American writer .

Life

Kim Yong-ik was born on May 15, 1920 in Tongyeong, Gyeongsangnam-do. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo in 1942 with a degree in English literature . After the liberation of Korea in 1945, he went to study in the United States and received his bachelor's degree from Florida Southern College in 1956. He then attended master’s courses at the University of Kentucky and the University of Iowa .

In 1956 he published his work The Wedding Shoes (known in Korea under the title The Shoes with the Flower Pattern (꽃신)) in Harper's Bazaar and started his writing career in the USA. In 1967 his work Blue in the Seed (known in Korea under the title Blue Seeds (푸른 씨앗)) was awarded the Austrian government's literary prize in the youth literature category, and in 1976 he received a National Endowment for the Arts from the American government . The short story Village Wine , which he published at the same time, was voted one of the Best American Short Stories .

From 1957 to 1964 he taught English literature at Korea University and Ehwa Womans University. During this time, most of his works, written in English, were translated into Korean and published. In 1964 he went back to the USA and taught there, among others, at Western Illinois University and the University of California, Berkeley . In 1994 he returned to Korea as a visiting professor at Korea University, where he succumbed to chronic heart disease on April 11, 1995. He was buried in his home town of Tongyeong.

Work

Korean

  • 겨울 의 사랑 Love in Winter (1956)
  • 꽃신 The shoes with the flower pattern (1956)
  • 밤뱀 The Night Snake (1964)

English (excerpt)

  • The Shoes from Yang San Valley (1970)
  • The Divine Gourd (1962)
  • Love in the Winter (1969)
  • Blue in the Seed (1964)
  • The Happy Days (1960)
  • The moons of Korea (1959)

Translations

German

  • Little son of the silent island , Ueberreuter Verlag (1976) ISBN 978-3-8000-4502-0 .
  • Bird's eye , Lamuv (1989)

Awards

  • 1967 - Literature Prize of the Austrian Government in the category of youth literature
  • 1990 - 1st Korean Literature Prize for Foreign Literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other common transcriptions can be viewed under Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 김용익 ( 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 August 11, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / klti.libguides.com
  2. ↑ 네이버 지식 백과: 김용익 , accessed on August 12, 2014 (English)
  3. ↑ 한국 현대 문학 대사전, 서울 대학교 출판부 (2004) ISBN 978-89-521-0461-8
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Yong-ik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Tongyeong
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1995
Place of death Seoul