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A Man of All Interests: Novelist Kim Yeonsu | LIST

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http://list.or.kr/node/963
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Seoul
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Kim Yeonsu

About the Author

  • Kim Yeonsu
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Yeonsu
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김연수
  • ISNI : 0000000080703945
  • Works : 29
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A Man of All Interests: Novelist Kim Yeonsu Author's Profile By Uh Soo-woong on Nov 10 2014 00:53:25 Special Edition 2011 Kim Yeonsu is a man of habit. For an hour and a half every day he runs. He’s training. This fall he will be running the Chuncheon Marathon, all 42.195 kilometers of it. It’s his second marathon. For another hour or so he listens to music. He thinks it is lazy of classical music snobs to not take advantage of all the other good music out there. In high school he paid the DJ at the local bar and café for lessons on pop music. At one point in his career his byline carried the title of “popular music critic.” He spends an hour each day reading, sometimes he reads in print, sometimes on his iPad or Kindle. He checks out what his contemporaries in the English-speaking world have been writing, marveling at their carefree first-person narratives. Some say that Kim is the most serious and traditional among the young writers of his generation. They don’t know him at all. Kim Yeonsu, 41, has to be one of the most eager early adopters among his ilk. Whether it be writing, listening to music, reading, or running, Kim always gravitates to the latest and coolest. His job is to make writing cool.

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