Kim Jin-kyung (author) explained

Kim Jin-kyung
Birth Place:Dangjin, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
Occupation:Novelist, children’s book author, poet
Language:Korean
Genre:Young adult fiction, children’s literature
Notable Works:Cat School, Mirror Wars, Shadow Wars, To the Magpie Who Believes Itself to be a Pigeon, The Carpenters' Wars

Kim Jin-kyung (김진경; born 1953) is a South Korean author of children's and young adult literature.[1] He started writing books for children in 1997, and is considered a pioneer of Korean fantasy.[2] His best-known work is Cat School, the first Korean fantasy series for children. The series is vast, comprising 11 volumes in 3 parts, and won Le Prix des Incorruptibles in 2006.[3] His books build on motifs derived from myths and fairy tales. He also tackles sensitive social issues such as education and human rights in his works of fantasy. He was nominated as the Korean candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014.

Life

Kim Jin-kyung was born in Dangjin, Chungcheongnam-do, in 1953. After graduating from Daejeon High School in 1971, he went on to Seoul National University’s Department of Korean Language Education. He received the Newcomer of the Year Award for poetry from the magazine Korean Literature in 1974.  After graduating from university, he taught Korean in schools. He began to pursue an active career as an author of fairy tales such as Cat School from 2000. Kim served as a Secretary of Education and Culture to the Blue House in 2005 and 2006. In 2018, while serving as the chairman of the National Education Council, he was involved in major education policies in Korea.

Career

Kim Jin-kyung debuted as a poet by receiving the Newcomer of the Year Award for poetry from the magazine Korean Literature in 1974. He started writing fairy tales in the 1990s while participating in the Creators’ Association for Educational Literature, a fairy tale study group. He became the first Korean to win the French children’s literature award, the 17th Le Prix des Incorruptibles, for Cat School, which was published in 2001. The series has been published in translation in France, China, Taiwan, and Japan.[4] The Shadow Wars series was simultaneously published in France and Korea. He was nominated as the Korean candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014.

Awards

Works

Collaborations with other Writer and Illustrator

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Writer ABC List - Kim Jinkyung . Digital Library of Korean Literature.
  2. Web site: Jin-Kyung Kim: Korea ⋆ Author . Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature.
  3. Web site: List of Le Prix des Incorruptibles winners .
  4. Web site: Szkoła Kotów tom 2 - Kim Jin-kyung . KOREA ONLINE.

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