You-Il Kang

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You-Il Kang (born October 24, 1953 in Seoul ) is a South Korean author who has lived in Germany since 1995.

biography

You-Il Kang is the daughter of a high school principal and attended JinMyung Royal Girls High School in Seoul . At the age of 22 she made her debut with the novel White Flag (1975, topic: Partition of Korea) and received the Kyunghyang Literature Prize in 1976 with the novel acting lessons (topic: euthanasia). The prize was endowed with a record amount for South Korean standards. The novel was made into a film for cinema and television.

You-Il Kang has been a freelance writer since 1975. Several of her books were bestsellers in South Korea.

The subjects of her novels are e.g. B. Euthanasia and Terrorism. The protagonists are all border crossers: for example, an actor who helps his terminally ill brother to die; a revolutionary fighter who wants to realize his utopia by means of a time bomb . In order to implement a utopia in which there is neither oppression nor violence, one has to be ready to kill someone - a primordial paradox in world literature .

From 1988–89 You-Il Kang moderated the cultural broadcast broadcast from the guest room on KBS-TV (korean broadcastingsystem) and from 1986–87 the literary magazine Korea and your literature on EBS-TV . She was a regular guest on numerous talk shows , e.g. B. Political controversy at midnight and the civil court .

Newspaper novels have a long and important tradition in South Korea. Such was You-Il Kang author of serialized novels for various national newspapers such as Chosun daily timer, Donga daily timer and Hankuk Daily Newspaper. For a long time she wrote columns under her own name. In 1988 she was appointed a member of the Broadcasting Commission by the Seoul Olympic Committee. She is a regular columnist for German topics in the Korea Times .

As a result of personal strokes of fate, she moved to Germany in 1995 and had a ten-year break from writing. During this time she studied prose, drama and new media at the German Literature Institute Leipzig (DLL) at the University of Leipzig .

She has been a guest lecturer at the DLL since 2001. Her seminars deal with the comparison of European and East Asian literature as well as research techniques . For example, she and the DLL students visit an autopsy room, a prison, a forensic psychiatric ward, a court hearing, a shooting cellar, a monastery, etc., which has been reported several times in the media.

Works (selection)

You-Il Kang published 20 novels, 8 collections of essays and 4 volumes of short stories in South Korea. 5 novels were filmed.

  • Acting lessons , Munye Verlag, Seoul (1977)
  • White Flag , Munye Verlag, Seoul (1978)
  • Tree of the Poor , Sosulmunhak, Seoul (1979)
  • The Prophet's Bird , Munye Publishing House, Seoul (1981)
  • Walpurgis Night , Myoungi Verlag, Seoul (1980)
  • Solitude of the Field , Mugongsa, Seoul (1987)
  • For Pluto , Samjin Gihoeg, Seoul (1992)
  • Piano Sonata 1987 , Minumsa, Seoul (2005)

Essays (selection)

  • Aah, when the day comes I'll build a nest , Yowon Verlag (1984)
  • Under a juniper , Gyusang Verlag (1985)
  • For the resurrection of the lonely soul , Sinam Verlag (1986)
  • Pensées of Hope , Gyusang Verlag (1990)

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personal data
SURNAME Kang, You-Il
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean author
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul