Yun Hu-myong

Infobox Korean name
hangul=윤후명
hanja=尹厚明
rr=Yun Hu-myeon
mr=Yun Humyŏn
hangulborn=윤상규
hanjaborn=尹尙奎
rrborn=Yun Sang-gyu
mrborn=Yun Sanggyu

Yun Hu-myong (born January 17 1946) is a South Korean writer who has published poetry, novels, and essays. He was born in the city of Gangneung in Gangwon, South Korea, under the name Yun Sang-gyu. He received his bachelor's degree from Yonsei University.

Yun's novels deal with the relationship between fantasy and reality in individuals' lives. In a similar fashion, his poetry deals with the connection between the profound and the mundane.

Books

*"Expert Archer", poetry, (1977)
*"Don Juan's Love", novel, (1983)
*"Resurrecting Birds", novel, (1985)
*"There Is No Ape", novel, (1989)
*"To Stars", novel, (1990)
*"You, My Bad Darling", essays, (1990)
*"The Generation Without Promise", novel, (약속없는 세대)

Awards

His poems were awarded the Kyonghyang Shinmun Literature prize in 1967, Then in 1979, he was awarded the Hangook Ilbo Literature Prize for his short stories in 1979. In the 1980s he received several awards for his fiction. [ [http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/klt/97fall/yunhumyong.htm KOREAN LITERATURE TODAY Volume 2, No.3, Fall 1997] URL accessed July 29, 2007]

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