Yun Heung-gil

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

Life

Yun Heunggil was born in 1942 in a village in the South Korean province of Jeollanam. He lived in poverty, but where she learned the magic and the magic of nature to know, came into contact with the world of old women, their customs and traditions and learned a genuine language and storytelling.

At a young age Yun came off the rails and lived a life on the margins of society. The experience of abject poverty in his own body was later the basis for Yun's ability to " smell and the feelings of the people who stop their roots in the ground, which is called poverty " trace realistic. Yun graduated from teacher training and taught at an elementary school in the province. There he began his first literary works.

In 1968 he succeeded to the appearance of an autobiographical short story the leap into the literary life. He studied Korean literature at Wonkwang University and taught after graduating first at a private school. After his dismissal began for him again live in abject poverty.

1976 his collection of short stories house of twilight was published. The following year, eleven short stories, including The Man who left nine pairs of shoes, and Yun's first novel, The Sea of ​​Revelation published. In the eighties, Yun wrote the novels My Mother and The armband.

Yun now lives in Seoul, where he has worked as a writer as before.

Work (excerpts)

Korean

  • 장마 ( rainy season) Seoul: Eul Yoo 1974
  • 황혼 의 집 (House of Dawn ) Seoul: Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa 1976
  • 아홉 켤레 의 구두 로 남은 사내 ( The man who left nine pairs of shoes ) Seoul: Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa 1977
  • 묵시 의 바다 (Sea of Revelation ) Seoul: Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa 1978
  • 무지개 는 언제 뜨는가 ( When is the rainbow on? ) Seoul: changbi 1979
  • ( My mother ) Seoul: Samsung 1982
  • 완장 ( The armband ) Seoul: Hyundae Munhak 1983
  • 꿈꾸는 자의 나성 (Los Angeles for the dreaming people ) Seoul: Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa 1987
  • 달 국씨 일가 의 꾀죄죄한 나날들 ( The mundane days of family Dalguks ) Seoul: Jakkajungsin 1993
  • 낫 ( Sickle ) Seoul: Munhakdongne 1995
  • 빛 가운데 로 걸어 가면 ( If you go to the center of the beam) Seoul: Hyundae Munhak 1997
  • 소라 단 가는 길 ( The Road to Soradan ) Seoul: changbi 2003
  • 낙원? 천사? (Paradise Angels? ) Seoul: Minumsa 2003

Translations

German

  • My mother in: Issues for East Asian Literature No. 3, 1984
  • Rainy season: The little shaman, Munich: Marino 1998
  • The man of the nine pairs of shoes left behind Pendragon Verlag, Bielefeld 2005 ISBN 9783865320230

English

  • The Rainy Spell and other Korean Stories Winfield: Onyx Press, 1983
  • The House of Twilight London: Readers International 1989
  • The Rainy Spell and other Korean Stories NY: ME Sharpe 1998
  • The Rainy Spell Seoul: Jimoondang 2002
  • La Mère Paris: Philippe Picquier 1982
  • Los Angeles d'un d'un rêveur Paris: Philippe Picquier 1997
  • La Mousson. Nouvelles Marseille: Autres Temps

Spanish

  • El Camino a Soradan Brataria. 2009

Awards

  • 2010 - 14 Hyŏndae Buddhism Literary Award in the category of novel
  • 2004 - 12 Taesan Literature Prize
  • 2000 - 06 21st Century Literature Prize
  • 1983 - Hyŏndae Literature Prize
  • 1983 - Hanguk Ch'angjak Literature Prize
  • 1977 - 04 Nobel Prize for Korean literature
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