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Mun Tae-jun
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
OccupationWriter, poet
LanguageKorean
NationalitySouth Korean
Alma materKorea University
Korean name
Hangul
문태준
Hanja
Revised RomanizationMun Tae-jun
McCune–ReischauerMun T'aejun

Mun Tae-jun (Korean문태준, born 1970) is a South Korean poet.[1]

Career

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Mun Tae-jun has published several poetry collections since his prize-winning debut in 1994, and the great artistic potential of his works have gained the attention of many literary artists and critics.[2]

Mun Tae-jun's poems employ a comforting language to soothe the wounds of the soul. His poems seek to assuage the pains of those suffering from the violence and oppression of a heartless society. He values "conversation" highly, emphasizing full empathy between two existences, such as when he says, "That over there, is in me here; and I here, am in that over there. Let me respect that which is not me, and therefore those things that are me." The poet aspires to a state in which the subject and object are not distinct form one another, but fused together. In this respect, Mun Tae-jun carries on the traditional lyrical tradition.[3] His poetry collection The Development of Dusk (2008) was translated to English by Kim Won-Chung and Christopher Merrill and published as The Growth of a Shadow (2012). A handful of his other works have also been translated.[4]

Selected works

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Works in translation

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  • The Growth of a Shadow: Selected Poems of Taejoon Moon (2012) - translated by Kim Won-Chung and Christopher Merrill ISBN 9780982746639

Works in Korean (partial)

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Poetry collections

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Prose collections

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  • Embrace: Holding You, I Am Stained (포옹 - 당신을 안고 내가 물든다, 2007)

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Mun Taejun" Biographical PDF, LTI Korea, p. 1 available at LTI Korea Library or online at: "Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute". Archived from the original on 2013-06-07. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
  2. ^ "문태준" LTI Korea Datasheet: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "문태준" LTI Korea Datasheet: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ ""First" & Other Poems". theamericanreader.com. The American Reader. Retrieved 21 October 2013.