Kim Jeong-hwan

Kim Jeong- hwan ( born January 22, 1954 in Seoul) is a South Korean writer and poet.

Life

Kim Jeong- hwan was born on 22 January 1954 in Seoul. He made in 1980 with a degree in English at the Seoul National University. He made his literary debut official in 1980, when six of his works were published.

Kim's confrontation with a society composed largely of working-class, clearly represents the poetic transformation that he has gone through in the late eighties. In the late nineties, Kim published a collection of poems entitled coatings ( 기차 에 대하여 ). The poems in this anthology reveal the philosophy and character of the working class, through a simple and concise language, free from the occasional monotony, as it is normally found in prose.

Kim also has a lot of realistic poems published that deal with the suffering, the frustrations and hopes of the minjung.

Working

Korean

• 마포, 강변 동네 에서 In a flow area in Mapo (1980 )
• 지울수 없는 노래 A unquenchable Song ( 1982)
• 황색 예수 전 The history of yellow Jesus (1983 )
• 사랑 노래 Love Song (1984 )
• 좋은 꽃 A good flower ( 1985)
• 우리 노동자 We workers (1989 )
• 기차 에 대하여 coatings ( 1990)
• 하노이 서울시 편 poems Hanoi - Seoul ( 2003)

Novels

• 사랑 의 생애 Life of Love ( 1992)
• 순금 의 기억 memories of pure gold (1996 )

Literary criticism

• 삶 의 诗Poetry of Life ( 1986)

Awards

• 2009 - 제 8 회 아름다운 작가상 ( 8 Arŭmdaun author award )
• 2007 - 제 9 회 백석 문학상 ( 9 Paeksŏk Literature Prize )