Yun Dae-nyong

Yun Dae-nyong
Hangeul	윤대녕
Hanja	尹大寧
Revised Romanization	Yun Dae-nyeong
McCune- Reischauer	Yun Tae-nyŏng
See also : Korean name

Yun Dae-nyong (born May 1, 1962 in Yesan in South Ch'ungch'ŏng Province ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Yun Dae-nyong was born in Yesan in 1962. He was the only son and had three sisters. He first lived with his grandparents and came to live with his parents in 1970, who had started a new household in Onyang . By the time he finished elementary school, he had changed schools several times because his father was constantly moving around. He spent his childhood in poverty. He began to read a lot at an early age. After completing his French studies, he worked for various publishing houses and in the press office of a company. When he wasn't planning or correcting books, he wrote short stories in his spare time. His novel Ayu-Angling Communication was published in 1994 , at a time when ideologies and totalitarianism were a thing of the past in Korea and instead existence and the individual had come to the fore as topics in Korean literature. This novel made him an icon of Korean literature in the 1990s.

Work

Korean

stories

• 은어 낚시 통신 ( Ayu-Fishing Communication ) Seoul: Munhakdongne 1994
• 옛날 영화 를 보러 갔다 ( I went to see old movies ) Seoul: Chungang M&B 1995
• 남쪽 계단 을 보라 ( See the stairs to the west ) Seoul: Segyesa 1995
• 지나가는 자의 초상 ( portrait of people walking by ) Seoul: Chungang M&B 1996
• 흘러 갔다 ( Many stars have moved to one place ) Seoul: Saenggak-ui namu 1999
• 피아노 와 백합 의 사막 ( The Piano and the Lily Desert ) Seoul: Pŏm 2002
• 누가 걸어 간다 ( Someone walks ) Seoul: Munhakdongne 2004

Novels

• 달 의 지평선 ( The horizon of the moon ) Seoul: Haenam 1998
• 코카콜라 애인 ( Coca Cola Beloved ) Seoul: Segyesa 1999
• 사슴 벌레 여자 ( The Stag Beetle Woman ) Seoul: Irŭm 2001
• 미란 ( Miran ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa 2001
• 눈 의 여행자 ( The Snow Traveler ) Seoul: Chungang M&B 2003
• 장미 창 ( The Rose Window ) Seoul: Chakka chŏngsin 2003

Translations

English

• Between Heaven and Earth Seoul: Jimoondang Publishing Company 2002

French

• Voleur d'oeufs Paris: L'Harmattan 2004

Awards

• 2007 - 1st Kim Yu-jŏng Literature Prize
• 2003 - 4th Lee Hyo-sŏk Literature Prize
• 1998 - 43rd prize for contemporary literature
• 1996 - 20th Yi Sang Literature Prize
• 1994 - Prize for Young Artists of Today
• 1990 - Prize for young authors of the journal Literature and Thoughts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Naver: People: 윤대녕 , accessed July 29, 2013 (Korean).
2. ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Yun Dae-nyong ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 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 15, 2013. 
3. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: Yun Dae-nyong  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 15, 2013 (Korean).  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yun is the family name here, Dae-nyong is the first name.