Yun Humyong

Yun Hu-myong (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea[1]) (born January 17, 1946) is a South Korean writer who has published poetry, novels, and essays.[2]

Yun Humyong
Born (1946-01-17) January 17, 1946 1971 (age 49–50)
Gangneung
LanguageKorean
NationalitySouth Korean
Alma materYonsei
Korean name
Hangul
윤후명
Hanja
尹厚明
Revised RomanizationYun Hu-myeon
McCune–ReischauerYun Humyŏn
Birth name
Hangul
윤상규
Hanja
尹尙奎
Revised RomanizationYun Sang-gyu
McCune–ReischauerYun Sanggyu
In this Korean name, the family name is Yun.

Books

Yun was born in the city of Gangneung in Gangwon, South Korea, under the name Yun Sang-gyu. He received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Yonsei University.[3]

Work

Although he is one of the major Korean writers of the 80s, Yun's fiction maintains some distance from the dominant trend in Korean fiction of 1980s—the concern with realism as an effective literary tool in rendering contemporary social situations. Instead, what supports Yun's fictional world are individual desire and the power of fantasy. The archetypal situation in Yun's works is that of a man suffering from a sense of ontological lack; deadened by routines of daily life, he immerses himself in fantasy or travel in order to secure what life in the real world has denied him—meaning of existence and genuine engagement with another human being. Often this search hinges on the protagonist's ardent yearning for a woman. The fantasy cannot last, but it is the ceaseless movement away from the vulgar reality that has the potential to resurrect the self from existential insecurity, loneliness, or despair. Such romantic individualism is heightened by the sensitive, lyrical style of writing that reflects Yun's poetic sensibilities.[2]

Yun's novels deal with the relationship between fantasy and reality in individuals' lives. In a similar fashion, his poetry deals with the connection between the profound and the mundane.

Books
  • Expert Archer, poetry, (1977)
  • Don Juan's Love, novel, (1983)
  • Resurrecting Birds, novel, (1985)
  • There Is No Ape, novel, (1989)
  • To Stars, novel, (1990)
  • You, My Bad Darling, essays, (1990)
  • The Generation Without Promise, novel, (약속없는 세대)

Awards

His poems were awarded the Kyonghyang Shinmun Literature prize in 1967, Then in 1979, he was awarded the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award for his short stories in 1979. In the 1980s he received several awards for his fiction.[4] In 1995 he was awarded the Yi Sang Literary Prize for White Boat.

References
  1. "Author Database". LTI Korea. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  2. "Yun Hu-myong" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Lee, Kyung-ho (1996). "Yu, Hu Myong". Who's Who in Korean Literature. Seoul: Hollym. pp. 553–53. ISBN 1-56591-066-4.
  4. KOREAN LITERATURE TODAY Volume 2, No.3, Fall 1997 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine URL accessed July 29, 2007
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