- Yi Sang
Infobox Korean name
imgwidth=160px
hangul=이상
hanja=linktext|李|箱
rr=I Sang
mr=I Sang
hangulborn=김해경
hanjaborn=linktext|金|海|卿
rrborn=Gim Hae(-)gyeong
mrborn=Kim Hae-gyŏngYi Sang (
September 14 1910 -April 17 1937 ) was one of Korea's most innovative writers of modern literature. He was born inSeoul , Korea as Kim Hae-gyeong. He was trained as anarchitect , but he is remembered for the poems and short stories he wrote during his short life. He is most widely known by his pen name.Yi Sang wrote both poetry and short stories that were very unlike anything that had ever been written. He was very unconventional in the structures that he used. His 'outside-the-box' modernism was very much ahead of its time. Most of his works were done during the 1930's, when Korea was under the cultural administration of the Japanese. Some of his works were written with a very political agenda against the Japanese, but written allegorically so as to get by Japanese censorship.
While visiting Tokyo in 1936 he was arrested on charges of thought crimes. While in prison he contracted
tuberculosis and died. He was 27 years old, according toEast Asian age reckoning .Yi Sang never received much recognition for his writing during his lifetime, but his works began to be reprinted in the 1950s. In the 1970s his reputation soared, and in 1977 the
Yi Sang Literary Award was established. It has become one of Korea's most prestigious awards for literary works. His most famous short story is probably "Wings" (Nalgae in Korean), and his poem "From Crow's-eye View" is also well-known.References
*cite book
chapter = Yi Sang
title = Who's who in Korean literature
author = Im Hon-yong
pages = 518-520
year = 1996
publisher = Hollym
location = Seoul
isbn = 1565910664
editor = Korean Culture & Arts FoundationExternal links
* [http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2006-November/006038.html Thread discussing English-language studies and translations of Yi Sang, from the Korea-Studies listserv]
Persondata
NAME=Yi Sang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Kim Hae-gyeong
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Korean writer
DATE OF BIRTH=1910-09-14
PLACE OF BIRTH=Seoul, Korea
DATE OF DEATH=1937-04-17
PLACE OF DEATH=Tokyo, Japan
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