Kim Won-il

Kim Won-il (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea,) born 1942, is a South Korean writer.
Life
Kim Won-il was born on March 15, 1942 in Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do. Kim was only a child when his father, a communist activist, defected to the North during the Korean War. The father left his wife and four children behind, to a legacy of great poverty and a cloud of ideological suspicion. Kim attended Daegu Agriculture High School, and holds bachelor’s degrees from Sorabol College of Arts and Yeungnam University and a master’s degree in Korean Literature from Dankook University.
He made his literary debut in 1966 when his short story “Algeria, 1961” was chosen as the winner of a contest sponsored by Daegu Daily News. The following year, his story “A Festival of Darkness” (Eodumui chukje) was selected for publication in Contemporary Literature (Hyeondae munhak).
As of 2013, Kim works in the Creative Writing Department at Sunchon...