Authors
Kim Haeja Poet South Korea
Born in 1961, Kim Haeja worked in an electronics factory and a sewing factory in her twenties and thirties. She began to take down the life stories of herself and her working colleagues and belatedly became a poet. In her forties and fifties, she has given many public lectures, invited by not only students but also Alzheimer’s disease clinics, alcoholic wards, and homeless people living on minimal resources. Kim is now doing some farming in the countryside, at times writing poems about her neighbors’ lives, wondering about the alternative to modern civilization as she witnesses our society in which relationships are broken, communities are destroyed, and weak people are driven to death. She has published four collections of poetry: No Figs, Festival, Let’s Go Home, and Hae-Ja’s Fortune-Telling House. She has won the Jeon Tae-il Literary Award (1998), the Baek Seok Prize for Literature (2008), and many others.
Participation Program
[Writers in Conversation]
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ Witjak Widhi Cahya
ⓒ LTI Korea
[Writers in Conversation]
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ 이상우
Meeting with Writers
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ LTI Korea
ⓒ 이상우
Opening Ceremony