Kim Jung-hyuk (author)
| Kim Jung-hyuk | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | Kimcheon, Korea |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Korean |
| Nationality | Korean Empire |
| Period | 2000-present |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김중혁 |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Kim Jung-hyuk |
Kim Jung-hyuk is a Korean author and cartoonist who is regarded as one of the writers who will help usher in the future of Korean literature.[1]
Life
Born in Kimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province in 1971 Kim possesses a diverse resume, including writing professional book reviews for an online bookstore, handling DVDs for a bookstore that specializes in art, writing music columns for a pop culture magazine, and writing for a restaurant industry magazine. In addition to literature, he is interested in a wide range of fields, including movies, music, and food—those around him refer to him as an “everything-ist” rather than a “novelist.” Given his interest in drawing and car- toons, he drew his own illustrations for his story collections and works freelance as a cartoonist. It is perhaps for that reason that he referred to himself in the author’s note of Penguin News as a collection of countless Lego bricks.[2]
Work
Characters with unusual personalities or rare jobs also appear in his stories: a “conceptual inventor” who confines himself underground and invents useless concepts; a man who wanders in search of “Banana, Inc.” with a rough map left behind by a friend who committed suicide; a map surveyor who searches for his direction in life, using a wooden Eskimo map. While writing about trivial objects, unusual people, and unseen music, Kim Junghyuk has established himself as a writer who awakens readers to the warmth and importance of analog sensibilities in a digital age.
Kim's stories are considered on the outer fringe of Korean literature, and feature a nearly maniacal focus on the objects of his work. This focus on objects instead of characters is extremely unusual in Korean fiction. Kim Jung-hyuk always attempts to discover new approaches that no one else has delved into.[3]
Works in Translation
- The Glass Shield
- 楽器たちの 図書館 (Japanese)
- J'etais un maquereau (French)
- La Bibliothèque des instruments de musique (French)
Works in Korean (Partial)
Short Story Collections
- Penguin News (2000)
- Library of Instruments (2008)
Awards
- 2008, his short story, “Offbeat D,” won the 2nd Kim Yujeong Literary Award.[4]
- 2010 Munhak Dongne Young Artist Award
- 2011 Today's Young Artist Award
- 2012 Yi Hyo-seok Literature Award[5]
References
- ↑ LTI Korea Author Database: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do#
- ↑ "김중혁 " biographical PDF available at:http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do#
- ↑ http://www.koreana.or.kr/months/news_view.asp?b_idx=396&lang=en&page_type=list
- ↑ http://www.koreana.or.kr/months/news_view.asp?b_idx=396&lang=en&page_type=list
- ↑ "수상내역". naver.com. Naver. Retrieved 21 June 2014.