Lee Garim


Lee Garim is a South Korean writer.

Life

Lee Garim was born in Yolha, Manchuria. He graduated from Song Kyun Kwan University and Graduate School with a degree in French Literature. He received his Ph.D. in French Literature from Rouen University in France. He has lectured at Sungjon University, Songshin's Women's University, Rouen University, Inha University, and worked as a producer at MBC in Daejeon, Korea. Lee has also severed as the Vice-President of the French Language and Literature Association of Korea.

Work

summarizes Lee's work:
Lee Garim's collections include Ice Age, With the Forehead Against the Window, and Sad Peninsula. Lee Garim has also translated works by Gaston Bachelard including The Flame of a Candle and Water and Dreams. He has been awarded Jung Jiyong Literature Prize.
Major poems include “A Book of Winter Lithographs”, “Proust’s Letters”, “Iris of Many Colors”, “Between Five and Seven O’Clock”, “Night Watchers”, “A Violet”, “Weed”, and “A Top”.

Works in translation

French