Authors
Kim Takhwan Novelist South Korea
“I am a novelist who straddles memory and research, who wishes to explore life through beautiful neat writing. One novel with books all over the desk, one novel with nothing on the desk; this is the way I have been writing, now for a decade. I meet my readers through the thesis ‘The human being is a narrative-loving animal’, and value most that evening when I got immersed in writing and lost track of time.”
Takhwan(b. 1968) has studied Korean Literature at Seoul National University. He has written over ten novels, with long historical novel cycles as his trademark, some titles of which are Me, Hwang Jinee (2002), How Rueful To Be Forgotten (2002), The Bangak Manuscript Murders (2 vols., 2003), and Everlasting (4 vols., 1998) and General Yi Sunshin Forever (8 vols., 2004) which were the original of the popular TV drama series of the same name. He is currently a professor at KAIST.
Participation Program
Round Table 3 Newness in my literature
Round Table 2 Newness in my literature
Round Table 1 Newness in my literature