Park Je-chun
Park Je-chun was a South Korean poet.
Biography
Park Je-chung was born in Seoul, Korea on 23 March 1945. Park graduated from Dongguk University in 1966 and immediately debuted as a poet in the Hyundai Munhak monthly. Park became a member of the literary coterie Poetic Thought in 1983 and in 1995 helped to found the magazine Literary Academy, for which he served as publisher and editor. He also taught at Kyonggi University and served as an official of the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation.Park Je-Chun died on 10 June 2023, at the age of 78.
Work
The Korea Literature Translation Institute has summarized Park's contributions to Korean literature:Works in Translation
- La Canción del dragón y otros poemas SF-Consensus: Poems of Park Je-chun. Translated by Chang-Soo Ko. Homa & Sekey Books, 2017.
Works in Korean (Partial)
Source:Collections of Poetry
- Taoist Poems
- Laws of the Mind
- The Third Star
- The Moon Over the Darkening Sea
- Farther than the Darkness
- Dreaming Prints
- The Autumn of my 23rd Year
- Your Name, My Poems
- Flower of the Sky
- In the Twelve Hells of the Blue Star
- Wings of the Seoul
- Lectures on Poetry Composition
- Methods of Poetry Composition
- Selections from the Jade Mirror of Mind
- Discourses on Herbs and Roots
- The Flame of a Dream-Filled Life
- The Fountains of the Heart
Awards
- Hyundai Munhak Literary Award
- Prize for Poetry of Korean Poet's Association
- Nokwon Literary Award
- Woltan Literary Award
- Yun Tong-ju Literary Prize
- Dongguk University Literary Prize