Moon Chung-hee

Moon Chung-hee
Hangeul	문정희
Hanja	文 貞 姬
Revised Romanization	Mun Jeong-hi
McCune- Reischauer	Mun Chŏnghŭi
See also : Korean name

Moon Chung-hee (born May 25, 1947 in Posŏng , South Chŏlla Province ) is a South Korean writer.

Life

Moon Chung-hee grew up in Seoul .

As a student at the Chinmyŏng Girls' High School, she has already won several literary prizes and published her first volume of poetry. She was then taught by the master of Korean poetry Sŏ Chŏng-ju . In 1969, during her studies at Dongguk University , she was named "Best Young Talent" by the monthly literature ( Wolgan munkak ) and entered the world of professional poetry.

Her work includes numerous anthologies. She has received a number of national and international awards, including the "Contemporary Literature Prize", the "Sowol Literature Prize for Poetry", and the "Chŏng Chi-yong Literature Prize". At the World Literature Forum in Tetovo , Macedonia, she won the poet's award 2004 with her work “Fountain”. Later she won other awards, including the award for the best artist of the year in 2008, selected by the Association of Korean Art Critics. In 2010 she was the winner of the 7th Cikada Prize.

Her poems have now appeared in several languages, in German for example Die Mohnblume im Haar (양귀비꽃 머리 에 꽂고), in English Moonflower and in Spanish Yo soy Moon . Her main works are in French, Hebrew, Japanese and other languages.

Work

Volumes of poetry

• 문정희 시집 ( Moon Chung-hees poems ) (Wolgan munhaksa, 1973)
• 새떼 ( flock of birds ) (Minhaksa, 1975)
• 혼자 무너 지는 종소리 ( A bell that strikes by itself ) (Munhak yesulsa, 1984)
• 아우내 의 새 ( The Bird of Aunae ) (Ilwolsogak, 1986)
• 그리운 나의 집 ( My house that I miss so much ) (Yejŏnsa, 1987)
• 찔레 ( Heideröslein ) (Chŏnyewon, 1987)
• 우리 는 왜 흐르는가 ( Why do we flow? ) (Munhak sasangsa, 1987)
• 하늘 보다 먼 곳에 매인 그네 ( A swing, higher than the sky ) (1988)
• 남자 를 위하여 ( For men ) (Minŭmsa, 1996)
• 나는 문 이다 ( I am a door ) (Munhak edisyŏn ppul, 2007)

Translations

German

• The poppy in your hair (Edition Peperkorn, 2007) ISBN 978-3929181777

English

• Windflower (Hawks Publishing, 2004) ISBN 978-0974856407
• Woman on the Terrace (White Pine Press (NY), 2007) ISBN 978-1893996861

Awards

• 2013 - Yuksasi Literature Prize
• 2010 - Cikada Prize
• 2008 - Best Artist of the Year Award, selected by the Association of Korean Art Critics
• 2004 - Chŏng Chi yong Literature Prize
• 2000 - Tongguk Literature Prize
• 1996 - Sovŏlso literary award from Munhak sasangsa publishing house
• 1975 - Prize for Contemporary Literature
• 1969 - Prize for poets from the monthly magazine "Literatur"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 문정희 , accessed January 20, 2014 (Korean)
2. ↑ Korean Author Database  ( 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 5, 2013 (Korean).  
3. ↑ LTI Korea  ( 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 on July 5, 2013.  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Moon is the family name here, Chung-hee is the first name.