Lee Seong-bok

LEE Seong- Bok ( born June 4, 1952 in the municipality of the province of Gyeongsangbuk Sangju ) is a South Korean poet.

Life

Lee Seong -bok went up to the fifth grade elementary school of his birthplace Sangju before he moved to a school in Seoul at his own request.

During his high school years, he already issued a private anthology. In 1971, after the completion of high school in Seoul, Lee Seong -bok enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy, Seoul National University. There he joined in the second year of a literary group and builds friendships with critics and authors such as Kim Hyeon and Yi In -seong.

After joining the Navy in 1973, he systematically read the important works of literature and participates in numerous literary competitions for young writers. After his discharge from military service, Lee Seong -bok took up the study of French literature, met with poets like Hwang Ji- u and organized on the campus art exhibitions with poetry. 1977, Lee Seong -bok on the recommendation of the then professor of French literature and influential literary critic Kim Hyeon love that has come red-light district and other poems in the literary journal " Munhak Kwa JISUNG " (Literature and intellect ) and does so as a poet a first name.

In 1979, he took a master's degree. 1980, in the turmoil of the popular uprising of Gwangju, he married Kim Hye -ran. That same year, the appearance of two major literary magazines " Munhak Kwa JISUNG " and " Changjakkwa Bipyeong " is forcibly set ( literary creation and criticism ) by the new military government. In October, Lee Seong- boks first volume of poetry is awakened When the stone from his sluggish slumbers published, with whom he 1982 Kim Su Young's Literature Prize won. In the same year he took a job as a lecturer at the Keimyeong University in Daegu, where he teaches creative writing. A study in France from 1984 to 1985 made ​​him rethink his inspired by Franz Kafka and Charles Baudelaire Western orientation. After his return he began to devote himself to reading the East Asian classics. Appeared in 1986 Lee Seong- bok second volume of poetry, Southern Ocean Seidenberg.

In 1990 he was appointed assistant professor, received his doctorate and was awarded the Sowol Prize for Literature. In the same year, the third volume of poems Lee Seong- bok, The end of that summer was published. In 1991 he received the opportunity for a further year of study in Paris, a period in which Lee Seong -bok turned away from Confucianism and under the influence of Taoism and Buddhism, the Western literature rediscovered for itself by means of Yeonam Foundation. After his return in 1992 he published based on his doctoral thesis studies on the poetry of Gerard de Nerval, the year after his fourth book of poems commemorating the holly. Ten years later appear in quick succession two more editions of poems, titled Ah, things without a mouth and Wavy track on the front of the moon.

Working

Volumes of poetry

• 뒹구는 돌 은 언제 잠 깨는가 ( When awakened the stone from his sluggish slumbers ) Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa, Seoul 1980.
• 남해 금산 ( South Sea Seidenberg ) Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa, Seoul 1986.
• 그 여름 의 끝 ( The end of the summer ) Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa, Seoul 1990.
• 호랑 가시 나무 의 기억 ( memory of the holly ) Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa, Seoul 1993.
• 아, 입 이 없는 것들 (Ah, your things without mouth) Munhak Kwa JISUNG Sa, Seoul, 2003.
• 달 의 이마 에는 물결 무늬 자국 ( Wavy track on the forehead of the Moon) Yollimwon, Seoul 2003.

Translations

German

• How different are the nights. Translated from Korean by Kang Yeo -Kyu and Uwe Kolbe. Wallenstein Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0868-8.

English

• I heard Life Calling Me; poems of Yi Song - bok Cornell East Asia Series, 2010, ISBN 978-1933947150

• Ah, les choses sans bouche. Circé, 2010, ISBN 978-2-84242-276-9.

Awards

• 2007 - 제 53 회 현대 문학상 ( 53 Hyŏndae Literature Prize )
• 2004 - 제 12 회 대산 문학상 ( 12 Taesan Literature Prize )
• 1990 - 소월 문학상 ( Sowŏl Literature Prize )
• 1982 - 김수영 문학상 (Kim Su -yong Literature Prize )