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Chungmyong Kim

キム チュンミョン

Kaneshige Akira

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1956-01-01 (Tokyo, Japan)
Nationality
Korean Japanese
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Translator
Active Years
1974-

Education

Tokyo Metropolitan Sumidagawa High School
Year of Graduation: 1974
Country: Japan
University of Tokyo
Liberal Arts Section 3
Period: 1975-1977
Country: Japan
Left during general education
Osaka University of Foreign Studies
Korean Language Department
Period: 1977-1979
Country: Japan
Expelled

Awards

Asahi Newcomer Literary Prize
1997
Work: Sangaku Bugeicho
Organization: Asahi Shimbun
Result: 受賞
Historical Literature Prize
2006
Work: Tamna War Chronicles Sanbetsusho
Result: 受賞
Japanese Mathematical Society Publishing Prize
2014
Work: Galois Mathematics Told to My 13-Year-Old Daughter
Organization: Japanese Mathematical Society
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Sangaku Bugeicho

1997 Historical Novel

A historical novel.

historymathematics

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Historical style
Recurring Motifs
historyKorean related

Legacy

Highly regarded as a Zainichi Korean historical novelist and translator.