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Don Mee Choi
Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator.
Don Mee Choi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Seoul |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | poetry |
| Notable awards | Whiting Awards, MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship |
Life
Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea and now lives in Leipzig, Germany. In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by Kim Hyesoon.[1]
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[2]
- 2021: MacArthur Fellows Program[3]
- 2021: Royal Society of Literature International Writer[4]
Works
Books
- The Morning News is Exciting, Action Books, 2010, ISBN 9780979975561
- Petite Manifesto, Vagabond Press, 2014 (chapbook)
- Hardly War, Wave Books, 2016
- DMZ Colony, Wave Books, 2020
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)
Anthology
- Yasuhiro Yotsumoto Ming Di Don Mee Choi, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Hyesoon Kim, Trilingual Renshi, Vagabond Press, 2015, ISBN 9781922181442
References
- ^ "Don Mee Choi, poet". Wave Books. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
- ^ "Don Mee Choi". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
- ^ "This Year's MacArthur 'Genius Grants' Were Just Announced—Here's The Full Winner List". NPR. September 28, 2021. from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ "Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced". Royal Society of Literature. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
External links
- New York Times review of Hardly War https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/books/review/hardly-war-by-don-mee-choi.html?_r=0
- Profile at the Whiting Foundation