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Kim Jung-hyuk (author)

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

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

Life

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Born in Kimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province in 1971, Kim has written professional book reviews for an online bookstore, handled DVDs for a bookstore that specializes in art, writing music columns for a pop culture magazine, and contributed 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 has drawn his own illustrations for his story collections and works freelance as a cartoonist.[2]

Work

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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.

Works in Translation

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  • 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)

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Short Story Collections

  • Penguin News (2000)
  • Library of Instruments (2008)

Awards

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  • 2008, his short story, “Offbeat D,” won the 2nd Kim Yujeong Literary Award.[3]
  • 2010 Munhak Dongne Young Artist Award
  • 2011 Today's Young Artist Award
  • 2012 Yi Hyo-seok Literature Award[4]

References

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  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. ^ "수상내역". Naver. Naver. Retrieved 21 June 2014.