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Yi Mun-yol (born May 18, 1948) is a South Korean writer. Yi's given name at birth was Yol; the character, Mun (which translates as "writer"), was added after he took up a writing career. His works include novels, short stories and Korean adaptations of classic Chinese novels as well as political and social commentaries.
May 14, 2024 · Yi Munyŏl (born May 18, 1948, Yongyang, North Kyŏngsang, Korea) is a South Korean author, regarded as a master of the short story and novella genres. Yi was born two years before the outbreak of the Korean War.
Yi Mun-yol was born in 1948. He made his debut as a writer in 1977. Yi’s works were enriched by the classics of East Asia that he had naturally become familiar with during his childhood and the Western literature that he had voraciously devoured in his young adulthood.
Oct 19, 2014 · Frames, Interviews, Rediscovering Korea’s Literary Giant: Novelist Yi Mun-yol, The webzine of KLN, an English-language quarterly on Korean literature.
Yi Mun-yol is a South Korean writer. Yi's given name at birth was Yol; the character, Mun, was added after he took up a writing career. His works include novels, short stories and Korean adaptations of classic Chinese novels as well as political and social commentaries.
Yi Mun-Yol was born in Seoul in 1948. When the Korean War broke out, his father moved to North Korea, leaving behind his wife and three children. The family had to move continually because of the dangers of being associated with a political offender.
Yi Mun-yol (born May 18, 1948) is a South Korean writer. Yi Mun-yol was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1948, but the outbreak of the Korean War and his father's defection to North Korea forced his family to move about until they settled in Yeongyang, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the ancestral seat of his family.
