Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (; born 1971) is a South Korean comic book artist and translator, winner of the Harvey Awards. She currently lives on Ganghwa Island.

Life Gendry-Kim was born in Goheung, South Jeolla Province. For economic reasons, her family moved from rural Korea to the capital Seoul during her childhood, a story portrayed in her work "Le chant de mon père".

She studied Western painting and installation After graduating in 1998, she stayed on for another year to continue her studies. During this year she worked as a teaching assistant and assisted Korean exchange students, and completed her post-diplôme in the Reliure section (bookbinding). a drama later recounted in her work of fiction "The Waiting".

After his time at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, she did some exhibitions and residencies abroad, but had financial difficulties. So she started a part-time job translating Korean comics into French, where she developed her interest in the genre. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim has translated about a hundred graphic novels.

It was in 2013, when she worked on a short comic book called "Secret" based on victims' testimony, that she decided to write a comic book about the plight of sex slaves during the war, called 'comfort women', which resulted in her award-winning work Grass.

Works My Friend Kim Jong-Un (내 친구 김정은 nae chingu gimjeongeun, 2024) Tomorrow Will Be a New Day (내일은 또 다른 날 naeireun tto dareun nal, 2023) Dog Days (2021) The Waiting (2020) The Naked Tree (2019) Alexandra Kim, Daughter of Siberia (시베리아의 딸, 김알렉산드라 siberiaui ttal, gimalleksandeura, 2020) Jun (준이 오빠 Juni Oppa, 2018). Grass (2017) Jiseul (2015). De case en case: portraits de 15 bédéistes sud-coréens (2015). Le chant de mon père (2012).

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