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Anatoly Andreyevich Kim

アナトリイ・アンドレーエヴィチ・キム

Anatōrīi Andoreevichi Kimu

Aliases: アナトーリイ・キム

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1939-06-15 (Yntymak (Tyulku-bas district, South Kazakhstan Region))
Nationality
USSR, Russia, Kazakhstan
Languages
Russian
Religion
Christianity Baptized in 1979
Residence History
Kazakhstan, Yntymak → Sakhalin → Moscow → Kazakhstan → Peredelkino

Career

Occupations
novelist, playwright, screenwriter, translator
Active Years
1971-
Affiliations
Union of Soviet Writers, Russian Writers' Union
Memberships
Academy of Russian Literature
Influenced By
Velimir Khlebnikov

Education

Gorky Literary Institute
Literature
Period: 1971年(通信)
Year of Graduation: 1971
Country: Russia
Graduated by correspondence in 1971
Moscow Art School in memory of 1905
Art
Country: Russia

Awards

Order 'For Merit in Culture and Art'
2022
Organization: Presidential Administration of Russia
Result: 受賞
Order of Dostyk II degree
2009
Organization: President of Kazakhstan
Result: 受賞
Order of the Badge of Honour
1984
Organization: Soviet Government
Result: 受賞
Yasnaya Polyana Award
2005
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Belka

1985 Novel-fairy tale
NatureMyth

Father-Forest

1989 Novel-parable
NatureSpirit

Onlyria

1995 Novel
ChristianityReality

Bibliography

  • See Wikipedia for complete bibliography

Adaptations

  • Directed by A. Ivin (1990)

Translations by Author

  • Abdzhamil Nurpeisov 'The Last Duty'
  • Mukhtar Auezov 'The Path of Abai' new translation

Style & Themes

Literary Style
magical realismsurrealism
Recurring Motifs
timeeternityhistory of the spirit

Legacy

Known as a Russian magical realist writer of Korean descent with numerous awards.

Quotes

  • In Kim's surrealistic paintings... reality as the history of the spirit, seen from a great height.
    Source: Wolfgang Kasack (1996)

Trivia

  • Korean Russian. Parents deported from Far East to Kazakhstan in 1937.
  • Converted to Christianity in 1979.
  • Illustrates his own books.