Kim Eunguk
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Richard E. Kim was born Kim Eun Kook in 1932 in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province. He entered Seoul National University's economics department in 1950 but did not finish his studies due to the outbreak of the Korean War, during which he served in the ROK Marine Corps. He continued his education at Middlebury College in Vermont, US, where he studied political science and history from 1955 to 1959. He went on to earn an M.A. in writing at Johns Hopkins, an M.F.A at the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, and an M.A in Far Eastern languages and literature at Harvard University. The story he submitted for his M.F.A. thesis in 1962 became the basis for his first novel, The Martyred (1964). The novel was critically acclaimed upon its publication and was a New York Times bestseller for 20 weeks running. Kim became the first Korean American to be considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of this work, which was translated into 10 different languages. He followed up with other works set in the Japanese occupation and Korean War, while in the 1980s he also presented a documentary series on Korean immigrants in China and the Soviet Union.
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