Kim Jung-hyuk
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Kimcheon, Korea
OccupationWriter
LanguageKorean
NationalityKorean
Period2000-present
GenreFiction
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationKim Jung-hyuk
McCune–ReischauerKim Chunghyŏk

Kim Jung-hyuk is a Korean author and cartoonist.[1]

Life

Born in Kimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province in 1971 Kim has written 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. Given his interest in drawing and cartoons, he drew his own illustrations for his story collections and works freelance as a cartoonist.[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.

This focus on objects instead of characters is extremely unusual in Korean fiction.[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

  1. ↑ LTI Korea Author Database: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "김중혁 " biographical PDF available at:http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "ERROR".
  4. ↑ "ERROR".
  5. ↑ "수상내역". naver.com. Naver. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
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