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Telling the Lives of the Poor: Novelist Kim Joo-Young | LIST

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Kim Juyeong

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  • Kim Juyeong
  • Birth : 1939 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Juyeong
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김주영
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 24
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Telling the Lives of the Poor: Novelist Kim Joo-Young Author's Profile By Uh Soo-woong on Oct 19 2014 12:41:46 Vol.13 Autumn 2011 This May I went to the KLTI U.S. Forum held at UCLA with the writer Kim Joo-Young. The theme of the forum was “Looking to Prosperity from Within the Ruins: Korea in Korean Literature,” and Kim spoke with warmth and candor about his eventful past. If one had to sum up Kim’s work in one word, through its journey from ruins to prosperity, that word would be poverty. He comes from Jinbo-myeon, Cheongsong-gun, North Gyeongsang province. While few Koreans who remember the Japanese annexation and the Korean War could say that they did not suffer from poverty, Kim’s impoverished childhood growing up with a single mother sets his experience apart from many others.       Back in Seoul I met the author again at a café in Gahoe-dong one summer day, with the rain that had kept the city hostage for weeks still pouring outside. In order to ease into the lush garden of Kim’s work, which focused on poverty and the mother figure throughout his life, I first asked about his eccentric sleeping habits..

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  • Arabic(اللغة العربية) Book Available
    صوت الرعد
    Kim Juyeong et al / 김주영 / 2006
  • Bulgarian(български) Book Available
    Морска комка
    Kim Juyeong et al / 김주영 / 2006
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    惊天雷声
    Kim Juyeong et al / 김주영 / 2008

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