Moon In-soo (2 June 1945 – 7 June 2021) was a South Korean poet.

Life

Moon In-soo was born in June 1945 in

Seongju County Seongju County (''Seongju-gun'') is a county in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. This largely agricultural area is located immediately west of the metropolitan city of Daegu. The capital of the county is the town of Seongju. Lotte Skyhill ...

North Gyeongsang Province North Gyeongsang Province ( ko, 경상북도, translit=Gyeongsangbuk-do, ) is a province in eastern South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Gyeongsang province, and remained a province of Korea until the ...

. He studied

Korean literature Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja. It is commonly divided into classica ...

Dongguk University Dongguk University (Korean: 동국대학교, Hanja: 東國大學校) is a private, coeducational university in South Korea, fundamentally based on Buddhism. Established in 1906 as Myeongjin School (명진학교; 明進學校) by Buddhist pioneers ...

but dropped out. Moon began his literary career in 1985 when he published (능수버들 A Weeping Willow) in ''Shimsang''. He has published several poetry collections. Moon won the 14th Daegu Literary Award in 1996, the 11th Kim Daljin Literary Prize in 2000, the 3rd Nojak Literature Prize in 2003, the 11th Poetry and Poetics Award in 2006, the 17th Pyeon-un Literature Award in 2007, and the 10th Korea Catholic Literature Award for Poetry in 2007, as well as the

Midang Literary Award Midang Literary Award (hangul: 미당문학상) is established in June 2001 by the JoongAng Ilbo ''The JoongAng'', formally known as ''JoongAng Ilbo'', is a South Korean daily newspaper published in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the thr ...

in the same year. Ra Heeduk has said that Moon In-soo's poetry is "an earnest prayer from the bottom, and a beautiful dedication to the air above."

Works

Poetry collections

* (늪에 늪이 젖듯이 As the Swamp Becomes Wet in the Swamp), Shimsang, 1986. * (세상 모든 길은 집으로 간다 All Roads Lead to Home), Munhak Academy, 1990. * (뿔 The Horn), Minumsa, 1992. * (홰치는 산 The Fluttering Mountain), Maninsa, 1999. * (동강의 높은 새 The High Bird of Donggang), Segyesa, 2000. * Shh! (쉬!), Munhakdongne, 2006. * (배꼽 The Bellybutton), Changbi, 2008. * (적막 소리 The Sound of Silence), Changbi, 2012. * (그립다는 말의 긴 판 Writing How I Miss You On a Long Panel), Seojeongsihak, 2012. * (달북), Si-indongne, 2014. * (나는 지금 이곳이 아니다 I'm Not Here Now), Changbi, 2015.

Children's poetry books

* (염소 똥은 똥그랗다 Goat Poop is Round), Munhakdongne, 2010.

Awards

* 1996 14th Daegu Literary Award * 2000 11th Kim Daljin Literary Prize * 2003 3rd Nojak Literature Prize * 2006 11th Poetry and Poetics Award * 2007 10th Korea Catholic Literature Award for Poetry * 2007 7th

* 2007 17th Pyeon-un Literature Award * 2016 9th Mogwol Literature Prize

References

External links

Moon In-soo's blog
* Lee, Jong-an
"Moon In-soo’s songs that somehow do not age".
OhMyNews.
Interview with Moon In-soo, winner of the Mogwol Literature Prize.
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