Anatoli Andreyevich Kim (russian: Анато́лий Андре́евич Ким; born 15 June 1939) is a Russian-language writer.

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. He was born in Sergievka,

Tulkibas District Tulkibas ( kk, Түлкібас ауданы, ) is a Districts of Kazakhstan, district of Turkistan Region in southern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the Village#Central and Eastern Europe, selo of Turar Ryskulov, Kazakhs ...

, Chimkent Oblast, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (today

South Kazakhstan Province Turkistan Region (), formerly South Kazakhstan Region ( kk, Оңтүстік Қазақстан облысы, translit= Oñtüstık Qazaqstan oblysy) (russian: Южно-Казахстанская область, ') from 1992–2018 and Chimkent ...

, Kazakhstan) and spent his early years there. In 1948, his family moved to the Russian Far East and Sakhalin, where he lived until 1957 before entering an art school in Moscow.

Translations

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

Kazakh language The Kazakh or simply Qazaq (Latin: or , Cyrillic: or , Arabic Script: or , , ) 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 lan ...

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).

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