Kim Jung-hyuk

Kim Jung-hyuk is a Korean author and cartoonist.

Life Born in Kimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province in 1971, Kim has written professional book reviews for an online bookstore, handled DVDs for a bookstore that specializes in art, writing music columns for a pop culture magazine, and contributed for a restaurant industry magazine. In addition to literature, he is interested in a wide range of fields. Given his interest in drawing and cartoons, he has drawn his own illustrations for his story collections and works freelance as a cartoonist.

Work Characters with unusual personalities or rare jobs also appear in his stories: a “conceptual inventor” who confines himself underground and invents useless concepts; a man who wanders in search of “Banana, Inc.” with a rough map left behind by a friend who committed suicide; a map surveyor who searches for his direction in life, using a wooden Eskimo map.

Works in Translation The Glass Shield 楽器たちの 図書館 (Japanese) J'etais un maquereau (French) La Bibliothèque des instruments de musique (French)

Works in Korean (Partial) Short Story Collections Penguin News (2000) Library of Instruments (2008)

Awards 2008, his short story, “Offbeat D,” won the 2nd Kim Yujeong Literary Award. 2010 Munhak Dongne Young Artist Award 2011 Today's Young Artist Award 2012 Yi Hyo-seok Literature Award