Don Mee Choi | |
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| Born | Seoul, South Korea |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | California Institute of the Arts BFA '84; MFA '86 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | DMZ Colony |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award, MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Award for Poetry |
Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator.
Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, educated in the United States, and now lives in Berlin, Germany. Choi's works of documentary poetry draw on family history as well as archival material to interrogate "the overlapping histories of Korea and the U.S." [1] In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by Kim Hyesoon. [2]
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Yi Sang: Selected Works is a 2020 anthology of poetry written by Korean modernist poet Yi Sang, edited by Don Mee Choi and translated into English by Choi, Jack Jung, Sawako Nakayasu, and Joyelle McSweeney. The anthology's pieces reflect Yi's experiments in language during Korean occupation by Japan.
Cheer Up, Femme Fatale is a 2007 poetry collection by South Korean poet and scholar Kim Yi-deum, published by Moonji Publications. In 2016, an English translation by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, and Johannes Göransson was published by Action Books for their Korean Literature Series. The English translation was a finalist for The Millions Best Translated Book Award for poetry and was shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize.
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