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Kim Won-il

김원일

Born 1942 · South Korea

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    Daesan 2014 · Winner

    아들의 아버지

    Adeurui abeoji

    Title translated by AI:“The Son's Father”

    Kim Won-il · 71 when first published

    Novel · 382 pages · Autofiction, Family, War

    AI-generated summary:Under his own name, a writer traces the father he last saw at eight, when the man went north during the Korean War: a clerk turned student in Japan, rural activist and Communist Party organiser who left his wife and children for his cause.