Anatoli Kim

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Anatoli Kim in 2013

Anatoli Andreyevich Kim (Template:Lang-ru; born 15 June 1939) is a Russian-language writer.<ref name="Bogdanova182">Template:Harvnb</ref>

Background

Kim's father was a Soviet Korean, the son of a man who immigrated to the Russian Far East in 1908; his mother was of Russian ethnicity. He claims to be a descendant of 15th-century Korean author Kim Si-seup.<ref name="Sakhvesti">Template:Citation</ref> He was born in Sergievka, Tulkibas District, Chimkent Oblast, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (today South Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan) and spent his early years there.<ref name="Bogdanova182"/> In 1948, his family moved to the Russian Far East and Sakhalin, where he lived until 1957 before entering an art school in Moscow.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

Translations

Aside from his original works, Kim has also translated a number of Kazakh language works into Russian, including Abdijamil Nurpeisov's Last Duty (Последний долг) and Mukhtar Auezov's Path of Abay (a re-translation, to replace an older Soviet-era version perceived as insufficient).<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Selected works

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Sources

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Further reading

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