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Kim Hyesoon
🇰🇷South Korea
Kim Hyesoon is the most important living Korean poet — a writer whose work burns with feminist fury, surrealist vision, and an unflinching engagement with the body. Phantom Pain Wings, Autobiography of Death, and The Hell of That Star push Korean poetry into territories of radical imagination, conjuring worlds where women's bodies become sites of both oppression and transcendence. Her language is volcanic, syntactically daring, and utterly unlike anyone else writing in Korean or any other language. Kim's numerous awards — including the International Griffin Poetry Prize — reflect a body of work that has expanded what poetry can be.
