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This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Young-moo
Hangul	김영무
Revised Romanization	Gim Yeongmu
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Young-moo

Kim Young-moo (김영무) (1944 - 26 November 2001) was a South Korean poet, literary critic and translator born in Paju. After obtaining his first two degrees from Seoul National University, he got his Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1987. His dissertation was Between Social Liberation and Individual Liberation: Ambivalences in George Eliot’s Moral and Social Thinking. He became a professor in the Department of English Language and literature at his first alma mater in 1981.

[edit] Awards

• Republic of Korea Literary Award (criticism), 1991
• Republic of Korea Literary Award (translation), 1991
• Korean Pen Translation Award (1996)
• Third Paeksok Literary Award (2001)

[edit] Publications in English

• The Sound of my Waves and Beyond Self by Ko Un; translated by Kim and Brother Anthony
• Back to Heaven by Chon Sang-Pyong; translated by Kim and Brother Anthony
• Faint Shadows of Love by Kim Kwang-kyu; translated by Kim and Brother Anthony
• Farmers’ Dance by Shin Kyong-Nim; translated by Kim and Brother Anthony
• "Pablo Neruda and Today's Korean Poetry," Korea Journal Vol.36 No.2 Summer 1996 pp.92~104
• "The Poetry of Kim Kwang-Kyu: From Spirit Mountain to Kunak Mountain," Korea Journal Vol.30 No.5 May 1990 pp.27~32

[edit] Translation of Kim's last poem, "Rainbow"

• http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/KimYM.htm