Language Korean Name Yun Heunggil Nationality South Korean Role Novelist | Ethnicity Korean Movies Rainy Season Citizenship South Korean | |
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Born 14 December 1942 (age 81) ( 1942-12-14 ) Books The Rainy Spell, The house of twilight People also search for Yu Hyun-mok, Sam-yuk Yoon, Yoo Young-kil | ||
한국문학번역원 영문판(English) Yun Heunggil
Yun Heunggil (born 14 December 1942) is a South Korean novelist known for his treatment of conflicts between the individual and society. He received his degree in Korean literature from Wonkwang University in 1973. In 1977 he won the Korean Literature Writers Award.
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한국문학번역원 스페인어판(Spanish) Yun Heunggil
Life
Yun Heunggil was born 14 December 1942 in Jeongeup, Jeollanam-do in Korea. He graduated from Jeonju Teachers School and Wonkwang University. Originally a schoolteacher, he has made a living as a writer since 1976, while also teaching at the university level.
Work
Yun's career can be divided into three phases. In the first phase, with often partly autobiographical works written during the early 1970s, Yun uses a young male narrator to depict a gloomy existence in which the family is threatened by internal or external troubles. Works of these periods include The Rainy Spell and The Lamb.
In a later phase, his novels shifted focus to depict life under the authoritarian Park Chunghee regime, in which the primary tensions are between personal conscience and material well-being, which was proposed by Park Chunghee. In 1977, he entered into the third stage with the publication of The Man Who Was Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes, in which the characters actively resist the forces oppressing them.
Yun currently works as a professor of creative writing at Hanseo University, Seosan.
Works in translation
Works in Korean (partial)
Short story collections
Novels
Linked Short Story Collection