Don Mee Choi is a

Korean-American Korean Americans are Americans of Korean ancestry (mostly from South Korea). In 2015, the Korean-American community constituted about 0.56% of the United States population, or about 1.82 million people, and was the fifth-largest Asian Americans ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and

translator Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The ...

Life

Don Mee Choi was born in

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

and now lives in Leipzig, Germany. In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by

Kim Hyesoon Kim Hyesoon () is a South Korean poet. Life Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin County, North Gyeongsang Province. She was raised by her grandmother and had tuberculous pleurisy as a child. She received her Ph.D. in Korean literature from Konkuk U ...

Awards

* 2011:

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...

* 2012: Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for ''All the Garbage of the World, Unite!'' by Kim Hyesoon * 2016:

Lannan Literary Fellowship The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...

Award * 2019:

Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. Before 2022, the awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. ...

Award for translation of ''Autobiography of Death'' from the Korean written by Kim Hyesoon * 2020:

National Book Award for Poetry The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".

for ''DMZ Colony'' * 2021: Guggenheim Fellowship Poetry * 2021: MacArthur Fellows Program *2021:

Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, th ...

International Writer

Works

Books

* ''The Morning News is Exciting'', Action Books, 2010, * ''Petite Manifesto'', Vagabond Press, 2014 (chapbook) * ''Hardly War'', Wave Books, 2016 * ''DMZ Colony'', Wave Books, 2020

Translations

* ''Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers'' by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2005 * ''Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women'', Zephyr Press, 2006 * ''All the Garbage of the World, Unite!'' by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2011 * ''Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream'' by Kim Hyesoon, Action Books, 2014 * ''I'm OK, I'm Pig!'' by Kim Hyesoon, Bloodaxe Books, 2014 * ''Autobiography of Death'' by Kim Hyesoon, Bloodaxe Books, 2018 (winner of the 2019

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Anthology

*Yasuhiro Yotsumoto Ming Di Don Mee Choi, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Hyesoon Kim, ''Trilingual Renshi'', Vagabond Press, 2015,

References

External links

* New York Times review of Hardly War https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/books/review/hardly-war-by-don-mee-choi.html?_r=0
Profile at the Whiting Foundation
21st-century American poets Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-poet-stub