Yi Tae-jun

Yi Tae-jun was born in 1904 in Gangwon. According to the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, he lost his father in 1909 and his mother in 1912, was expelled from Hwimun High School in 1924 for leading a boycott, then studied at Sophia University in Tōkyō, worked as a journalist and a composition teacher, and in 1933 founded the Circle of Nine with others. His stories about ordinary people made him one of the best-loved authors of the thirties. He went over to the North in 1946, was sidelined there in the mid-fifties, and the date and circumstances of his death are unknown.

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• Narrative까마귀Yi Tae-jun · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature