Song Woohye, Woohye Song

Gebundenes Buch

Yun Dong-Ju

A Critical Biography

Übersetzer: Kim, Flora M

Beschreibung

Chronicling the life of Korea’s “National Poet,” Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun’s development as a poet and a patriot. Universally acclaimed as the most comprehensive and definitive biography of the poet in South Korea, and now translated into English by Flora M. Kim, it is an indispensable guide to understanding Yun Dong-ju and Korea’s colonial period.   This book is published with the support of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea). 

Autor

A historian and novelist, SONG WOOHYE has published several novels and short story collections as well as biographies and collected essays. Best known for her work on Yun Dong-ju, she has also published papers on the history of North Gando and the Korean Independence Movement. She received a Samsung Literary Award in 1984. FLORA M. KIM is a freelancing translator/interpreter based in New Jersey, where she was born. She grew up in Seoul, Korea. Formerly a lawyer and currently a librarian, she has taught Korean literature, cinema, translation, and interpreting at Rutgers University - New Brunswick. DAVID KROLIKOSKI is assistant professor of Korean at University of Hawai¿i at M¿noa.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978841697
• ISBN-10: 1978841698
• Artikelnr.: 73496722