Song Soo-kwon

Song Soo-Kwon (Hangul: 송수권, March 15, 1940 – April 4, 2016) was a South Korean modern writer.

Song Soo-Kwon was born on March 15, 1940, in Kohung Jeollanam-do, Korea. Song attended Suncheon Normal School and Goheung Junior High School before from Sorabol Arts College with a degree in Creative Writing. Song has worked at the Kwangju Yogwang Girls Middle School as both a teacher and an educational researcher.

The Korea Literature Translation Institute sums Song's poetry up:

Song's work centers on the lives of common people, although Song does not see live as a confrontation between have and have-nots, and Song's work follows the lines of classical Korean lyricism. Being born, raised, and still living in Jeollnam-do, Song's poetry is strongly infused with traces of regional culture, and is extremely tradition oriented.

Poetry Collections

• Sanmune gidaeeo (1980)
• Dreaming Island (Kkumkkuneun seom, 1982)
• Mute Porcelain (Ado, 1984), Bird! Bird! O Bluebird! (Saeya saeya parangsaeya, 1986)
• Our Land (Ulideurui ttang, 1988)
• Even in My Sleep I Smile at the Thought of You (Jadagado geudae saenggakhamyeon unneunda, 1991)
• Watchman on a Starry Night (Byeolbamjigi, 1992)

Prose Collections

• At the Temple Gate once again (Dasi sanmune gidaeeo, 1985)
• Love Folds its Huge Wings (Sarangi keodarake nalgaereul jeopgo, 1989)
• Journey to the South (Namdo gihaeng, 1990).

• Literature and Thought (Munhaksasang) New Writers Award (1975)
• Ministry of Culture and Information Arts award (Mungongbu yesulsang)
• Geumho Cultural Foundation Arts award (Geumhomunhwajaedan yesulsang)
• Jeollanam-do Culture award (Jeollanam-do munhwasang)
• Kim Sowol Poetry prize (Sowol simunhaksang)