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Kim Eunguk

Kim Eunguk scrap

김은국

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 순수소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

Author Bio 작가 소개

Kim Eunguk (1932-2009) was a South Korean-American novelist who completed military service as an army first lieutenant before immigrating to the United States. In 1963, Kim received a master’s degree in Far Eastern literature from the Department of Far Eastern Language and Literature, and debuted in 1964 with the English-language novel Martyrs. Exploring the thoughts of a Christian and the problem of human salvation, the work was a twenty-week bestseller in the United States and was translated into more than twenty languages, including Korean and German. Kim is known for dealing with Korea’s circumstances from a humanistic perspective. •Martyrs (1965) •The Lost Names (1979)

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