Anatoli Kim

Anatoli Andreyevich Kim (Russian: Анато́лий Андре́евич Ким; born 15 June 1939) is a Russian-language writer.

Background

Kim's father was a Soviet Korean, the son of a man who immigrated to the Russian Far East in 1908; his mother was of Russian ethnicity. He claims to be a descendant of 15th-century Korean author Kim Si-seup. He was born in Sergievka, Tulkibas District, Chimkent Oblast, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (today South Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan) and spent his early years there. In 1948, his family moved to the Russian Far East and Sakhalin, where he lived until 1957 before entering an art school in Moscow.

Translations

Aside from his original works, Kim has also translated a number of Kazakh language works into Russian, including Abdijamil Nurpeisov's Last Duty (Последний долг) and Mukhtar Auezov's Path of Abay (a re-translation, to replace an older Soviet-era version perceived as insufficient).

Selected works

• Отец-лес: роман-притча, Советский писатель, 1989, ISBN 978-5-265-00994-4, OCLC 21140793

Sources

• Choi, Gunn-young (December 1988), "Russian and Oriental Elements in Anatoly Kim's Prose" (PDF), Rusistika, 5: 62–70
• Bogdanova, O. B. (2005), "Ким, Анатолий Андреевич", in Skatov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (ed.), Русская литература 20. века, Olma Media Group, pp. 182–184, ISBN 978-5-94848-262-0

Further reading

• Rollberg, Peter (1999), The Long Path Home: Fiction, Translation, and Anatoly Kim's Rediscovery of Korea, Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities
• Rollberg, Peter (1993), "Man Between Beast and God: Anatoly Kim's Apocalyptic Visions", World Literature Today, 67 (1): 100–106, JSTOR 40148870