Kim Won-Il’s Evening Glow, translated by Agnita Tennant (who just also translated three volumes of Park Kyung-ni’s Land), is the story of a businessman, Kim Kapsu, returning to his countryside home for a funeral and re-connecting with and re-assessing the complicated strands of his previous life, one lived in the turbulent period of Korean civil war.…
A new project. To find all the places online where you can read translated Korean Modern Literature, free ( Here are the works so far (I still have to get all the Korea Journal articles before 1989 and many of the works translated by Brother Anthony). If you know of a work that is NOT…
Waxen Wings: The Acta Korean Anthology of Short Fiction from Korea, edited by Bruce Fulton, is a breakthrough in the translation and publishing of Korean short stories into English. It is the first collection of such stories that I have read in which it seemed that the criteria for choosing works included a simple analysis…
Kim Won-il is now up on the Wikipedia. And it looks a bit like this: Kim Won-il Kim Won-il Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1942-Present Genres Modern Korean Fiction Notable work(s) Evening Glow This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim. Kim Won-il (born 42) (Hangul: 김) is a South Korean writer.…