Kim Kwang-kyu

Kim Kwang -kyu ( born January 1, 1941 in Seoul) is a South Korean poet and translator.

Life

Kim Kwang -kyu was born in 1941 in Seoul. He experienced the Korean War, which overshadowed his childhood and youth, and the difficult post-war period. 1960, during his German studies, he participated in the April revolution to resist the dictatorship. From 1972 to 1974 he continued his German studies in Germany. After returning to Korea, he received his doctorate from the Seoul National University with a thesis on Günter Eich. In 1974 he was appointed as a German professor at the University of Busan. Today he teaches at Hanyang University in Seoul.

In addition to his teaching, he made ​​his debut in 1975 as a lyricist. His first poems were published in the prestigious literary magazine " Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa " (Literature and Spirit). Since his first successful book of poetry from 1979, which has won several awards, published up to 2013 a total of 8 books of poetry. Kim Kwang -kyu is an influential poet of modern Korean literature scene, which is read by a wide audience. He has received numerous literary awards, including the 1981 award for writers of today, 1984, Kim Soo -young- Prize for his poetry collection No, it is not so, and in 2003 the prestigious Daesan Literary Award for his book of poetry of the first fight.

Besides his work as a poet and professor of Germanic Kim Kwang -kyu has also made ​​a name for himself as a translator of German literature. So he translated, inter alia, Poems by Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht as well as poetry and radio plays of Günter Eich into Korean.

Works

  • The last dream that drenched us ( Uri Rul Chŏksinŭn Majimak Kkum, Munhak - kwa Chisŏngsa, 1979) ISBN 9788-9320-0086-2
  • No, it is not so ( Anida Kŭrŏhji Anhta, Munhak - kwa Chisŏngsa 1983 /2001) ISBN 9788-9320-0184-5
  • The heart of the mountain Knack ( K'ŭnaksan UI Maum, Munhak - kwa Chisŏngsa, 1986) ISBN 9788-9320-0271-2
  • As a philistine ( Chomp'aengi - ch'ŏrŏm, Munhak - kwa Chisŏngsa, 1988) ISBN 9788-9320-0372-6
  • Aniri ( Aniri, Munhak - kwa Chisŏngsa, 1990) ISBN 9788-9320-0470-9
  • Waterways ( Mulgil, Munhak - kwa Chisŏngsa, 1994) ISBN 9788-9320-0687-1
  • Although I have nothing ( Kayin Keot Hana -do Ŏpchiman, Munhak - kwa Chisŏngsa, 1998) ISBN 9788-9320-1004-5
  • At the first encounter ( Ch'ŏŭm Mannadŏn Ttae, Munhak - kwa Chisŏngsa, 2003) ISBN 9788-9320-1410-4

Translations

German

  • The depth of the shell ( Pendragon, 1999) ISBN 9783-9290-9663-7
  • At the first encounter (already translated)
  • Grave font / Herb Thimmen / A small source / The Little Flowers / snow at night ( The Hours, Magazine of Literature, Art and Criticism, Vol 41, 4/ 96)
  • Who calls and ruft... / Useless Friends / Aniri 8/Schneckenliebe/Vogelzucht (pivot, Swiss literary magazine, Issue 106)
  • Messages from the green planet ( Wallenstein Publishing, 2010) ISBN 978-3-8353-0747-6

English

  • Faint shadows of love (Forest Books, 1996 ) ISBN 9781-8561-0000-7

Spanish

  • Tenues sombras del amor vieje ( Verbum, 2005) ISBN 9788-4796-2341-8

Awards

  • Isan Literary Award (2007)
  • Taesan Literature Prize (2003)
  • Pyŏnun Literature Prize (1994 )
  • Kim Su -yong Literature Prize (1984 )
  • Onul -ui author award (1981 )
  • Nokwŏn Literature Prize (1981 )
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