STOCKHOLM -- South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said "confronts historical ...

These lines from “Showtime,” the first poem in Koh’s book “A Lesser Love,” hint at the hard personal truths Koh will reveal in the pages that follow – a childhood marked by absent parents and a ...

Content warning: The following piece includes mentions of suicide and sexual violence. Poetry, like the other arts, takes many forms that lead to many different ends. Some say that poems are good for ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...

Cho Chi-hun (1920–1968), a poet and professor of Korean literature at Korea University in the 1950s, was considered a mid-career figure in Korean poetry despite being in his 30s. He debuted in 1939 at ...

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Akio Nakagawa, a professor of contemporary culture at Shokei University in Japan, recently published a collection of sijo poems titled “Afterimage.” Sijo is a traditional Korean poetic form comprising ...

A South Korean poet once tipped for the Nobel Prize for Literature on Friday lost a defamation suit against a fellow writer who accused him, in verse, of sexual abuse. Ko Un, an 85-year-old former ...