Kin Shiryo

Korean author. Born in Pyongyang. Arrived in Japan in 1932. Graduated from the German Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University. After working as a journalist in the cultural affairs department of the Chosun Ilbo, he went on to graduate school at Tokyo Imperial University. His work In the Light, published in the Literary Capital in 1939, was nominated for the 10th Akutagawa Prize, marking his literary start. He published works such as Pegasus, Grass Deep, and Mukyu Family one after another, and while facing the tragic reality of colonial Korea and the hardships faced by Koreans in Japan, he sought a path to freedom. He was arrested in December 1941, and returned to Japan the following February upon his release. His collected works in Japan include In the Light (1940, Koyama Shoten) and Hometown (1942, Kocho Shorin). In Korea, he published the long novels Taebaek Sanmyaku (Japanese) and Song to the Sea (Korean). In the spring of 1945, he escaped to an anti-Japanese area in China and joined the Korean Volunteer Army. He returned to Korea immediately after liberation and published novels, plays, reportage, etc. One of his collected works is "Frost and Wind" (1948, Korea People's Publishing House). At the start of the Korean War in 1950, he served in the People's Army as a wartime writer and is believed to have been killed in action in the autumn of the same year.

[Im Chan-hye]

"The Complete Works of Kim Saryang, 4 volumes (1973, Kawade Shobo Shinsha)" ▽ "Kim Saryang - A Life of Resistance, by An Woo-sik (Iwanami Shinsho)"

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朝鮮の作家。平壌(ピョンヤン)生まれ。1932年に渡日。東京帝国大学独文科卒業。『朝鮮日報』学芸部記者を経て東京帝大大学院へ進む。39年『文芸首都』に発表した『光の中に』が第10回芥川(あくたがわ)賞候補となり文学的出発を行う。『天馬』『草深し』『無窮一家』などを次々に発表、植民地下朝鮮の悲惨な現実や在日朝鮮人の苦難に満ちた生活を直視するなかで自由への道を模索した。41年12月検挙、翌年2月釈放と同時に帰国。日本での作品集に『光の中に』（1940・小山書店）、『故郷』（1942・甲鳥書林）がある。朝鮮にて長編『太白山脈』（日本語）、『海への歌』（朝鮮語）などを発表。45年春、中国抗日地区へ脱出、朝鮮義勇軍に参加。解放直後に帰国し、小説、戯曲、ルポルタージュなどを発表。作品集に『風霜』（1948・朝鮮人民出版社）がある。50年朝鮮戦争開始時に従軍作家として人民軍に従軍、同年秋に戦死したとみられている。

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『『金史良全集』全4巻（1973・河出書房新社）』▽『安宇植著『金史良――その抵抗の生涯』（岩波新書）』

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