Kim Soo-young

Kim Soo-young ( born November 27, 1921 in Seoul, † June 16, 1968 in Seoul) was a Korean poet and translator.

  • 2.2.1 German
  • 2.2.2 English
  • 2.2.3 French

Life

Kim Soo-young was born on November 27, 1921 in Seoul. After graduating from the Sunrin Commercial High School he went to study on the way to Japan in order to attend the Tokyo University of Commerce. In 1943 he returned to Korea to escape back to the convening of student soldiers in Japan. A year later he moved with his family to Jilin, Manchuria and teach there at the Jilin High School. At this time he was also heavily involved with the local theater. After the liberation in 1945, he returned to Seoul back to work there as an interpreter and as a senior finally went to the Anglistischen Faculty of Yonhui University, but later renounced to the position.

It was convened by the North Korean army and became a prisoner of war. In 1952, he was dismissed in the POW camp on the island of Geoje, where he worked as an interpreter for the director of the infirmary and for the U.S. Army. Kim later taught English at the Sunrin Commercial High School and started for the magazines Chugan T'aep'yŏngyang ( 주간 태평양 ) and P'ŏnghwa Sinmun ( 평화 신문 ) to work after he returned to Seoul in 1954. The following year he retired and started a poultry farm in his home in order to devote himself to poetry, translation and literary criticism. He died on 16 June 1968.

Working

Korean

Poetry collections

  • 새로운 도시 와 시민들 의 합창 The new town and her choir ( 1949)
  • 달나라 의 장난 practical jokes on the Moon (1958 )
  • 거대한 뿌리 The colossal Horn ( 1974)
  • 달 의 행로 를 밟을 지라도 the way to the moon entered (1976 )

Prose collections

  • 퓨 리턴 의 초상 Portrait of Puritismus (1976 )

Works as a translator

  • 카뮈 의 사상 과 문학 Camus intuition and literature (1958 )
  • 현대 문학 의 영역 English Translation of modern literature (1962 )

Translations

German

  • The Guardian of the Cloud: selected poems ( 김수영 시선 - 구름 의 파수병 ) Edition Peper grain (2001) ISBN 978-3929181302

English

  • Variations: Three Korean Poets (3 인 시선 - 사랑 의 변주곡 - ), Cornell Univ. East Asia Program ( 2002) ISBN 978-1885445100
  • Cents Poèmes ( 김수영 시선 ), William Blake ( 2000) ISBN 9782841030958

Awards

  • 2001 - 금관 문화 훈장 ( Kŭmgwan Order of Cultural Merit )
  • 1999 - 한국 예술 평론가 협의회 20 세기 를 빛낸 한국 의 예술인 ( Award for excellent Korean artists of the 20th century )
  • 1958-1 회 한국 시인 협회 (1st prize of the Association of Korean poet ) 상
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