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The Drifters

About the E-Books

Author
Hyun Kyung-jun
Co-Author
-
Translator
문진준
Publisher
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Published Year
2011
Country
SOUTH KOREA (Seoul)
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century

Original Title
유맹
Romanization of Original
Yumaeng
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9780547540535
Page
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About the Author

  • Hyun Kyung-jun
  • Birth : 1909 ~ 1951
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kyung-jun
  • Family Name : Hyun
  • Korean Name : 현경준
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
About the Original Work
  • 유맹
  • Author : Son Chang-sop
  • Published Year : 1940
  • English Title : The Drifters
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Hyun Kyung-jun was born in the town of Myeongchon in North Hamgyeong Province in 1909.  In the late 1920s, he traveled to Siberia and then went to Japan for his study.  He began his career as a writer in 1934 with the serialization of his work “The Sun of the Heart” in the daily Joseon Ilbo and the selection of his short story “Raging Waves” in the prestigious Annual Spring Literary Contest.  In the following years Hyun came to establish himself as a writer who exposed the violent reality of the period through the style and techniques of literary realism and Hyun, along with the writer Kim Jeong-han, continued to write tendency literature after the formal dissolution of KAPF. Like An Su-gil and Kang Kyung-ae, Hyun is recognized as a writer who wrote realistic accounts of the lives and experiences of ethnic Koreans in the Northern Gando area.