Lee Jangwook | |
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) |
Language | Korean |
Nationality | South Korean |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 이장욱 |
Revised Romanization | I Janguk |
McCune–Reischauer | Ri Changuk |
Lee Jangwook (Hangul: 이장욱) is a South Korean poet, novelist, and critic.[1]
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1968, Lee Jangwook majored in Russian literature the undergraduate and graduate school levels at Korea University. He has worked as an editor and also as a Professor of Creative Writing at Chosun University in Gwangju Korea.[2] Lee began his writing career in earnest in 1994 with a series of poems being published as winners of the new writer's award in the poetry division of the literary journal Contemporary Literature.[3]
The Korea Literature Translation Institute summarizes Lee's work:
Moreover, he is active in other diverse roles, including holding a permanent post on the editorial committee of a leading literary magazine, which is unprecedented at his age, and as a well-known literary critic in his own right, having published incisive analyses of the esoteric works of his contemporaries, including Hwang Byeongseung, Kim Haengsuk, and Kim Minjeong.[5]
Lee has published two collections of poetry in Korea, Sand Mountain in My Sleep and Hopeful Songs at Noon (2006). He is also a novelist, having written, Cheerful Devils of Callot. In addition to strictly literary works, he has written two collections of literary criticism, My Gloomy Modern Boy (2005) and Revolution and Modernism: Russian Poetry and Its Aesthetics (2005).
Currently, he is an active member of the poetry group Cheonmong ("Heavenly Dream").
Lee was a resident at the University of Iowa International Writing Program in 2008, which he participated in as a courtesy of the Korea Literature Translation Institute. At that residency Lee spoke about traveling to Russia, "Fourteen years ago, in the winter of 1994, I embarked on a long journey from St. Petersburg to Chuvashia with Andrei, who was my roommate at the time,"[8] and expressed his own view of the role of literature's role in society:
Poetry Collections
Novels
Collections of Short Stories
Criticism