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Ri Ki-yong (also Lee Gi-yeong; May 6, 1896 – August 9, 1984) was a Korean novelist.


Life

Ri Ki-yong was born in Asan, Chunchongnam-do in Korea. He wrote under the name Minchon. Ri attended the Seiisku School of English in Tokyo, Japan, He worked as a member of KAPF in 1925 and was the organizer of the Choson Proletarian Writers' Federation in Seoul as well as the leader of the North Choson Federation of Literature and Arts. 1926, he served as an editor of Light of Joseon (Joseon jigwang), an organ of the Korean Communist Party and a journal promoting proletarian literature. Ri Ki-yong spent more than two years in jail."Lee Giyeong" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# After liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Ri moved to North Korea where he was key in creating the orthodox position on literature in North Korea, serving for several years in a key position in North Korean Federation of Literature and Arts. He is reported to have died in August 1988.


Work

The Korea Literature Translation Institute summarizes his contributions to literature: Like many other North Korean writers, even famous ones, Ri is not well known in his home country, where biographical details of writers are generally not made known to the reading public. Tatiana Gabroussenko describes how, when she interviewed defectors, she:


Works in Translation

German * Heimat (고향)


Works

* ''Seohwa''〈서화〉 * ''Ingan suop''〈인간수업〉 * ''Kohyang'' 〈고향〉''Home village'' 1934 * ''Shin gaeji''〈신개지〉「新開地」 ''Newly ploughed land'' serialised * ''Ddang''〈땅〉''Soil'', 1949 * ''Tuman gang''〈두만강〉, ''Tumen River'' * ''Bom''〈봄〉''Springtime'' serialised in the Dong-A Ilbo 1940 Ivanov, Viktorina Ivanovna New Fiction of Korea. Nauka. 1987


See also

*
Cho Ki-chon Cho Ki-chon ( ko, 조기천; 6 November 1913 – 31 July 1951) was a Russian-born North Korean poet. He is regarded as a national poet and "founding father of North Korean poetry" whose distinct Soviet-influenced style of lyrical epic p ...
* Han Sorya *
Korean literature Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja. It is commonly divided into classica ...
* North Korean literature


References


Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ri, Ki-yong 1890s births 1984 deaths 20th-century Korean novelists People from Asan People from South Chungcheong Province Literature of Korea under Japanese rule Members of the 1st Supreme People's Assembly Members of the 2nd Supreme People's Assembly Members of the 3rd Supreme People's Assembly Members of the 4th Supreme People's Assembly


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Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour North Korean novelists