Kim Hyesoon

Kim Hyesoon (born 1955) () is a South Korean poet.
Life.
Kim Hyesoon was born in Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do. She received her Ph.D. in Korean Literature from Konkuk University and began as a poet in 1979 with the publication of "Poet Smoking a Cigarette" ("Dambaereul piuneun siin") and four other poems in Literature and Intellect. Kim is an important contemporary poet in South Korea, and she lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Kim was in the forefront of women published in a literary journal, "Munhak kwa jisŏng" (Literature and Intellect).
Work.
Kim started to receive critical acclaim in the late 1990s and it is her own belief that her work was partly recognized because at that time there was a generally strong wave of women's poets and poetry.
Kim is the recipient of multiple literary prizes including the Kim Su-yŏng Literature Award (1996) for her poem, "A Poor Love Machine", Sowol Poetry Literature Award (2000), and Midang Literature Award (2006), which are named after three renowned contemporary Korean poets. Kim was the first woman poet to receive the Kim Su-yŏng Literature Award, Midang Award, contemporary poetry award and Daesan Literary Award, Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award (2019), Griffin Poetry Prize (2019).
Kim's poetry collections include: "From another star" (1981), "Father's scarecrow" (1985), "The Hell of a certain star" (1987), "Our negative picture" (1991), "My Upanishad, Seoul" (1994), "A Poor Love Machine" (1997), "To the Calendar Factory Manager" (2000), "A Glass of Red Mirror" (2004), "Your First" (2008), and "Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream" (2011)Blossom, Pig(2016) "Autobiography of Death(2016)", "Wing Phantom Pain(2019)".
Kim has participated in readings at poetry festivals all over the world: Smith College Poetry Center (2003), Taipei Poetry Festival (2008), 41st Poetry International Festival Rotterdam (2010), Poesie Festival Berlin (2011), Poetry Parnassus London (2012), Stockholm international Poetry Festival(2014), Hong Kong International Poetry nights(2015), Festival for World Literature Cologne (2018) The Center for Art of Translation (2019) Poetry Foundation (2019) AAWW (2019) Fokus Lylic – Festivalkongress, Frankfurt (2019), Mason de Ra Poesie Paris (2019), L Ecole normale Superieure (2019), St, John's College, Cambridge (2019), New Castle Poetry Festival (2019), Litteratur Huset Trondheim Norway (2019), Litteratur pa Bla, Oslo (2019), Terrapolis, Charlottenborg Copenhagen (2019), etc.
Kim Hyesoon's Poetry was used for Jenny Holzer's exhibit at the Korean National Museum of Modern contemporary Art.
Kim's skill as a writer resides in her facility at combining poetic images with experimental language while simultaneously grounding her work in ‘feminine writing’ drawn from female experiences. Her language is violent and linguistically agile, appropriate for her topics which often center on death and/or injustice. A landmark feminist poet and critic in her native South Korea, Kim Hyesoon's surreal, dagger-sharp poetry has spread from hemisphere to hemisphere in the past ten years, her works translated to Chinese, Swedish, English, French, German, Dutch, and beyond. Kim Hyesoon raises a glass to the reader in the form of a series of riddles, poems conjuring the you inside the me, the night inside the day, the outside inside the inside, the ocean inside the tear. Kim's radical, paradoxical intimacies entail sites of pain as well as wonder, opening onto impossible—which is to say, visionary—vistas. Again and again, in these poems as across her career, Kim unlocks a horizon inside the vanishing point. 
Works in English.
Added to "The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing" (&NOW Books, 2013)
References.
https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/autobiography-of-death-by-don-mee-choi-translated-from-the-korean-written-by-kim-hyesoon-and-quarrels-by-eve-joseph-win-the-2019-griffin-poetry-prize/