Background
Lee Yun-gi was born in Gyeongsangbuk-do, of Korea, on May 5, 1947.
Lee Yun-gi was born in Gyeongsangbuk-do, of Korea, on May 5, 1947.
Although Lee Yun-gi (1947~ ) made his official literary debut in 1977 and published his first collection of short stories, White Helicopter in 1988, it was not until the mid-1990s that he gained recognition as a fiction writer Foreign the first twenty years of his career, Lee was better known as a prolific translator and by the time his first novel, The Gates of Heaven, appeared in 1994, he had translated and published over 150 works including Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum.