Anatoli Andreyevich Kim (; born 15 June 1939) is a

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writer.

Background

Kim's father was a Soviet Korean, the son of a man who immigrated to the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East ( rus, Дальний Восток России, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in North Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asia, Asian continent, and is coextensive with the Far Easte ...

in 1908; his mother was of Russian ethnicity. He claims to be a descendant of 15th-century Korean author

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. He was born in Sergievka,

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, Chimkent Oblast,

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(today

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) and spent his early years there. In 1948, his family moved to the Russian Far East and

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, where he lived until 1957 before entering an art school in

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Translations

Aside from his original works, Kim has also translated a number of

Kazakh language Kazakh is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs. It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan, and has official status in the Altai Republic of Russia ...

works into Russian, including Abdijamil Nurpeisov's ''Last Duty'' (Последний долг) and

Mukhtar Auezov Mukhtar Omarkhanuli Auezov (, Мұхтар Омарханұлы Әуезов, مۇحتار ومارحانۇلى اۋەزوۆ, ; , ''Mukhtar Omarkhanovich Auezov;'' 28 September 1897 – 27 June 1961) was a Kazakh people, Kazakh writer, a social ...

's ''Path of Abay'' (a re-translation, to replace an older Soviet-era version perceived as insufficient).

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