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Kim Chae-won

キムチェウォン

Gim Chaewon

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1946 (Deokso, Gyeonggi Province)
Nationality
South Korean
Languages
Korean

Career

Occupations
Writer, Author
Active Years
1975-2024
Influenced By
Kim Dong-hwan, Choe Jeong-hui, Kim Ji-won

Education

Ewha Womans University
Department of Painting
Country: South Korea

Awards

Yi Sang Literary Award
1989
Work: Winter Fantasy
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Hand of the Moon

Fiction

Bibliography

  • The Hand of the Moon (Darui son)
  • Ice House (Eoreum jip)
  • Honeymoon (Mirwol)
  • A Green Hat (Chorok bit moja)
  • Mountain Diary (Sanjunggi)
  • The Breath of May (Oworui sumgyeol)
  • Summer Fantasy (Yeoreumui hwan)
  • A Wordless Song (Mueonga)

Translations of Works

  • Wintervision (German)
  • Espejismos de otoño (Spanish)
  • Contos contemporâneos Coreanos (Portuguese)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
dreamlike quality of her proseconfessional and first-personsingle subjective gaze
Recurring Motifs
father's absence and family traumavictimization by historywounds of Korea's modern historyHallucination series

Legacy

South Korean author best known for the dreamlike quality of her prose, exploring family trauma and Korea's modern history.