Brother Anthony of Taizé was born in Cornwall (U.K.) in 1942, He studied European literature for 9 years at the University of Oxford. A member of the Community of Taizé since 1969, he has been living in Korea since 1980. He is now an Emeritus Professor of Sogang University (Seoul) and a Chair-Professor at Dankook […]
Mattho Mandersloot is a translator from Amsterdam. He studied Classics at King’s College London and went on to complete the MA Translation at SOAS as a Master’s Scholar, focussing on Korean literature. Currently based in Oxford, he is looking into the poetics of Korean onomatopoeia in translation as part of his MSt Korean Studies. Earlier […]
Choi Jeongrye was born in a city near Seoul. She studied Korean poetry at Korea University and received her PhD from the same school. She participated in the IWP (International Writing Program) as a poet at University of Iowa in 2006 and stayed one year at University of California in Berkeley as a visiting writer […]
Poet Kim Hyesoon first gained critical attention in the late nineties when a wave of influential women’s poetry emerged from South Korea. Her work is full of surreal, poetic images and speaks directly to female experience, the poems resonate with daily life, grounding her sometimes experimental use of language. In her native South Korea she […]