Kim Yeon-su is a poet and novelist who has also been active as a translator and music critic. Kim’s literary world is shaped by his study of humanities and at the same time owes much to the Spanish writer, Jorge Luis Borges, whose influence is paramount in his first collection of short stories. However, Kim, like all writers of merit, did not content himself with a place in the shadow of a literary great. Kim’s works were met with a critical reception worthy of a masterpiece at the very pinnacle of humanistic imagination. Kim has received 1994 Writer’s World Prize for Literature, 2001 Dongseo Literature Award and 2003 Dong-in Literature Prize.
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