Yun Heung-gil

Yun Heung-gil
Hangeul	윤흥길
Hanja	尹興吉
Revised Romanization	Yun Heung-gil
McCune- Reischauer	Yun Hang-gil
See also : Korean name

Yun Heunggil (born December 14, 1942 in Chŏngŭp , Chŏllabuk-do ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Yun Heunggil was born in 1942 in a village in North Chŏlla Province, South Korea . He lived in poor conditions, but there he got to know the magic and magic of nature, came into contact with the world of old women, their manners and customs and learned an unadulterated language and storytelling art.

At a young age, Yun got on the wrong track and led a life on the margins of society. The experience of bitter poverty firsthand later became the basis of his ability to realistically trace the “smell and feelings of people whose roots are in a soil called poverty” . Yun completed a pedagogical training and taught at an elementary school in the province. There he began his first literary work.

In 1968 he made the leap into literary life with the publication of an autobiographical short story. He studied Korean literature at Wongwang University and initially taught at a private school after graduating. After his resignation, a life of deep poverty began again for him.

In 1976 his first volume was published with tales House of Twilight . The following year, eleven short stories were published, including The Man Who Left Nine Pairs of Shoes and Yun's first novel, The Sea of ​​Revelation . In the 1980s, Yun wrote the novels My Mother and The Armlet .

Yun now lives in Seoul, where he still works as a writer.

Work (excerpts)

Korean

• 장마 ( rainy season ) Seoul: Ŭlyu 1974
• 황혼 의 집 ( House of Twilight ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa 1976
• 아홉 켤레 의 구두 로 남은 사내 ( The Man Who Left Nine Pairs of Shoes ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa 1977
• 묵시 의 바다 ( Sea of ​​Revelation ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa 1978
• 무지개 는 언제 뜨는가 ( When does the rainbow open ? ) Seoul: Ch'angbi 1979
• ( My mother ) Seoul: Samsŏng 1982
• 완장 ( The armband ) Seoul: Hyundae munhak 1983
• 꿈꾸는 자의 나성 ( Los Angeles for the dreaming people ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa 1987
• 달 국씨 일가 의 꾀죄죄한 나날들 ( The Banal Days of Talguk's Family ) Seoul: Chakka chŏngsin 1993
• 낫 ( The Sickle ) Seoul: Munhakdongne 1995
• 빛 가운데 로 걸어 가면 ( When walking in the middle of the light ) Seoul: Hyundae munhak 1997
• 소라 단 가는 길 ( The Road to Soradan ) Seoul: Ch'angbi 2003
• 낙원? 천사? ( Paradise? Angels? ) Seoul: Minŭmsa 2003

Translations

German

• My mother. In: Booklets for East Asian Literature. No. 3, 1984.
• Rainy season. In: The little shaman. Marino, Munich 1998.
• The man who left nine pairs of shoes. Pendragon Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-86532-023-6 .

English

• The Rainy Spell and other Korean Stories. Onyx Press, Winfield 1983.
• The House of Twilight. Readers International, London 1989.
• The Rainy Spell and other Korean Stories. ME Sharpe, New York 1998.
• The Rainy Spell. Jimoondang, Seoul 2002.

French

• La Mère. Philippe Picquier, Paris 1982.
• Los Angeles d'un d'un rêveur. Philippe Picquier, Paris 1997.
• La Mousson. Nouvelles. Autres Temps, Marseille.

Spanish

• El Camino a Soradan. Brataria, 2009.

Awards

• 2010 - Modern Buddhism Literature Prize in the Novel category
• 2004 - Taesan Literature Prize
• 2000 - Literature Prize of the 21st Century
• 1983 - Prize for Contemporary Literature
• 1983 - Korean Literature Prize
• 1977 - Author's Prize for Korean Literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 윤흥길 ( 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 July 29, 2013. 
2. ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Yun Heung-gil ( Memento of the original from February 1, 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 18, 2013. 
3. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: Yun Heung-gil ( Memento of the original dated 5 November 2014 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 18, 2013 (Korean). 
4. ↑ Perlentaucher: Perlentaucher: Yun Heung-gil , accessed on July 18, 2013 (German).

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, Heung-gil is the first name.