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Kwon Hyeok-woong Poet South Korea
Born in 1967 in Chungju, Chungcheongbuk-do, Kwon Hyeok-woong studied Korean Literature at Korea University. In 1996, he won a prize for literary criticism in the annual contest hosted by the JoongAng Ilbo, and in poetry the next year through Literary JoongAng, a quarterly magazine. His poetry collections are Genealogy of Mazinger, Touching Lips to That Face, and Under the Golden Tree. He has received an award from the Contemporary Poetry Coterie and the Young Poet Award from the Association of Korean Poets. Currently he is a professor in the department of Creative Writing at Hanyang Women’s University.
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