Chong Hyon-jong

Chong Hyon-jong
Hangeul	정현종
Hanja	鄭玄宗
Revised Romanization	Jeong Hyeon-jong
McCune- Reischauer	Chŏng Hyŏn-jong
See also : Korean name

Chong Hyon-jong (born December 17, 1939 in Seoul ) is a South Korean poet .

Life

Chong Hyon-jong was born in 1939. Like most of his generation, his life was very much shaped by the post-war period and the events of the democracy movement. From middle and high school he studied literature, music, ballet, philosophy and then studied philosophy at Yonsei University . In 1965 his first works, Solo Tanz und Lied des Sommers und des Winters appeared . A meeting with the literary critic Kim Hyŏn gave a decisive turning point to his works, which until then had focused on the painful death after life.

In his early 30s, Chong Hyon-jong began writing for a daily newspaper as a journalist. The volumes of poetry Dream of an Object (1972) and Festival of Pain (1974) date from this period . At the age of 38, Chong was appointed professor of creative writing at the Seoul Art College. He is currently Professor of Korean Literature at Yonsei University . Based on his feelings of guilt in connection with the Kwangju uprising , he wrote his collection of poems in 1984, Like a ball that jumps up again . He published his fourth volume of poetry in 1989 together with the collection of essays Entzückung des Leben . In the same year, the volume of poetry he translated, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, was published . He received the Pablo Neruda Medal for his translation work.

In 1992, at the age of 53, he published his fifth volume of poetry, Eine Blume , seven years later thirst and source at the same time. The Festival of Pain was published in 2002 and Fly Bus, fly! .

Chong is one of the most representative poets of the so-called Han'gŭl generation, those writers who were not yet familiar with the use of their own language after the liberation from Japanese colonial rule and who first had to learn Korean systematically. His poems overcame the lyrical language styles and emotions common in the colonial era, thereby reforming Korean poetry.

Work

Korean

• 사물 의 꿈 ( The Dream of Things ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 1972
• 나는 별 아저씨 ( I am the star uncle) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 1978
• 떨어져도 튀는 공 처럼 ( Like a ball jumping up again ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 1984
• 사랑할 시간 이 많지 않다 ( There's not much time to love ) Seoul: Segyesa, 1989
• 세상 의 나무 들 ( The Trees of the Earth ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 1995
• 갈증 이며 샘물 인 ( thirst and source at the same time ) Seoul: Munhak-kwa chisŏngsa, 1998

Translations

German

• Among the people is an island of Constance: Am Hockgraben Verlag 1996
• Mysticism of the ways / Snail on a lion's face / What is thinking? / Hegemony in: the hear . Journal for literature, art and criticism, 41st year, 4/96

English

• Day-Shine: Poems by Chong Hyon-jong NY: Cornell East Asia Program 1998
• Trees of the World: Collected Poems of Hyonjong Chong Columbia University Press 2005
• Cracking the shell: Three Korean Ecopoets Homa & Sekey Books 2006 ISBN 978-1931907408

Spanish

• El tiempo transparente: cuatro poetas coreanos contemporaneos Lima: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru 1996
• El tiempo transparente Lima: Pontificia Universidad Catolica Del Peru 2000

Awards

• 2006 - Science Award of South Kyŏngsang Province in the Art category
• 2004 - Pablo Neruda Medal
• 2004 - Kongch'o Literature Prize
• 2001 - Midang Literature Prize
• 1996 - Taesan Literature Prize
• 1995 - Prize for Contemporary Literature
• 1992 - Isan Literature Prize
• 1978 - Author Award for Korean Literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 정현종 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 26, 2014. 
2. ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Chong Hyon-jong ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 29, 2013. 
3. ↑ List Magazine: Chong Hyon-jong, A Poet Who Steals the Air ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 29, 2013. 
4. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: Chong Hyon-jong  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 29, 2013 (Korean).  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Chong is the family name here, Hyon-jong is the first name.