Poets Park Sangcheon and Jeong Chaewon Receive Pyeonun Literary Award

Poet Park Sang-cheon, author of "Drawing Her," and poet Jung Chae-won, author of "Orange Fish After the Rainy Season," were selected as winners in the poetry category of the Pyeonun Literary Award.

The Pyeonun Literary Award Steering Committee announced on the 11th that the award ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. on the 20th at the Jo Byeong-hwa Literature Museum in Yangseong-myeon, Anseong City.

Poet Park Sang-cheon [Photo by Pyeon Un Literary Award Organizing Committee]

The judging panel praised "Drawing Her," saying, "As stated in the preface, the poet's wife passed away one year before their 30th wedding anniversary. The poem depicts the 'wife' encountered throughout life after the separation." They added, "Although it can be considered an extremely personal story, when empathizing as the protagonist of an objective life, it tearfully represents the hidden mirror of most everyday people."

Regarding "Orange Fish After the Rainy Season," they commented, "In terms of the vitality of language, breadth of thought, and overflowing energy, it is 'young.' Moreover, the inevitably limited 'insight' is also deep and transparent." They praised, "The intense and comprehensive reflection awakens readers who have been immersed in bland lyricism."

Poet Jeong Chaewon Photo by Pyeon Un Literary Award Operating Committee

Born in 1955 in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, poet Park debuted in 1980 with "Hyundae Munhak" and has presented works such as "Until Finding Love," "A Winter Day Spent Silently," "5679 Makes Me Anxious," and "Offering a Glass of Daytime Drink."

Poet Jung debuted in 1996 with the monthly magazine "Literary Thought" and has published works including "The River I Cross at My Height," "The Village of the Sad Galileo," "The House Made by Temperature Difference," and "I Cannot See My Own Back with My Own Eyes."

The Pyeonun Literary Award was established by the late poet Jo Byeong-hwa, who passed away in 2003, to repay the literary grace he had received and to encourage younger generations on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1990. From 1991 to 2021, it has produced eighty-three awardees.