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Anatoliy Andreevich Kim
Анатолий Ким
Birth at
15 June 1939
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Writer, playwright and translator Anatoly Kim was born in Kazakhstan, in the village of Sergievka in the Tyulkubas district of the Chimkent region. His father and mother were exiled there in 1937 because of the policy of “resettlement of peoples.” When Anatoly was a child, his family constantly moved from place to place. First to Kamchatka, then to the Ussuri Territory, then to Sakhalin. The boy graduated from high school there. Then he entered the theater faculty of the Moscow Art College of Memory
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Writer, playwright and translator Anatoly Kim was born in Kazakhstan, in the village of Sergievka in the Tyulkubas district of the Chimkent region. His father and mother were exiled there in 1937 because of the policy of “resettlement of peoples.”
When Anatoly was a child, his family constantly moved from place to place. First to Kamchatka, then to the Ussuri Territory, then to Sakhalin. The boy graduated from high school there. Then he entered the theater faculty of the Moscow Art College of Memory of 1905. There he became interested in poetry, after studying for three years, went to the army, because he wanted to decide what he should do next - poetry or painting.
After serving, Kim decides to devote his life to literature and in 1971 he enters the Gorky Litin Institute in absentia. Writes and publishes stories, and at this time works in a variety of specialties: film mechanic, cranemaker, furniture master, designer, art critic.
Gradually, he becomes a famous writer. But the fascination with painting does not disappear: Kim often writes his own books. He writes in the style of mystical realism. His most famous novels are Father the Forest (1989), Squirrel (1985), Onlyria (2005), Gemini (2000), and Iona Island (2005). He also wrote a number of novels, short stories and plays.
Kim taught prose at the Literary Institute, was the editor-in-chief of the Yasnaya Polyana magazine, was a member of the editorial board of famous magazines and newspapers. He's a member of the Writers' Union. He traveled a lot, and when he visited South Korea, he learned that he was a descendant of the great medieval Korean poet Kim Si Sip.