Younghill Kang
Younghill Kang is a writer born in Korea in 1899 or 1903, died in 1972.
After its participation in the movements for the independence of Korea, he emigrated with the the United States in 1921. He was graduate universities of Boston then of Harvard.
He became English professor at the University of New York.
In 1931, it published The Grass Roof , first Korean American novel. This autobiographical novel describes the fight of an young man against the Japanese occupant and his departure of Korea. The English title means “the roof out of grass” or “the roof grassy”, but the translation in French is entitled With the country of the morning calms .
In 1937, it published the East goes to the West. Training of an Eastern Yankee .
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