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Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator.
Life
Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, educated in the United States, and now lives in Berlin, Germany. Choi's works of documentary poetry draw on family history as well as archival material to interrogate "the overlapping histories of Korea and the U.S." In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by Kim Hyesoon.
Awards
2011: Whiting Award
2012: Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon
2016: Lannan Literary Fellowship Award
2019: Griffin Poetry Prize Award for translation of Autobiography of Death from the Korean written by Kim Hyesoon
2020: National Book Award for Poetry for DMZ Colony
2021: Guggenheim Fellowship Poetry
2021: MacArthur Fellows Program
2021: Royal Society of Literature International Writer
Works
= Books
=The Morning News is Exciting, Action Books, 2010, ISBN 9780979975561
Petite Manifesto, Vagabond Press, 2014 (chapbook)
Freely Frayed,ᄏ=q, & Race=Nation, Wave Books, 2014 (chapbook)
Sky Translation, Goodmorning Menagerie A Chapbook Press, n.d. (chapbook)
Hardly War, Wave Books, 2016
DMZ Colony, Wave Books, 2020
Mirror Nation, Wave Books, (Publication date 4/2/24)
= 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 Griffin Poetry Prize)
Ahn Hak-sŏp #4 by Ahn Hak-sŏp and Don Mee Choi, The Green Violin, 2018 (chapbook)
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Yi Sang, ed. Don Mee Choi, Wave Books, 2020
= Anthology
=Yasuhiro Yotsumoto Ming Di Don Mee Choi, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Hyesoon Kim, Trilingual Renshi, Vagabond Press, 2015, ISBN 9781922181442
References
External links
Kathleen Rooney, "'Hardly War,' by Don Mee Choi" (review), The New York Times, April 22, 2016.
Profile at the Whiting Foundation
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kim Myeong-sun
- Seo Ji-hye
- Daftar nama keluarga Korea
- Ko Chang-seok
- Daftar anggota Majelis Nasional Korea Selatan 2016–2020
- Don Mee Choi
- DMZ Colony
- Yi Sang: Selected Works
- Kim Hyesoon
- Community of Writers
- Cheer Up, Femme Fatale
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- List of exophonic writers
- Action Books
- American Literary Translators Association
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