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Ten Thousand Lives scrap

Ten Thousand Lives

Author(s)
Ko, Un고은
Translator(s)
Anthony Of TaizeAnthony Of Taize Young-Moo KimYoung-Moo Kim Gary G. GachGary G. Gach
Publisher
Green IntegerGreen Integer
Country
UNITED STATES
Language
English(English)
Year Published
2005
Category
Poetry 시
Target User
Adult 성인
Period
Contemporary 현대

Description 작품 소개

English

Born in 1933 in a small rural village in Korea’s North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952, and began writing in the late 1950s.

Ten Thousand Lives is his major, ongoing work, which began in prison with a determination to describe every person he had ever met or heard of. It tells the stories of many figures from Korean history, as well as children and poor people, who, without his poems, would have vanished into oblivion. Green Integer also published selections from Vols. 21–25 (2021) and from Vols. 26–30 (2023) of this magnum opus.

Maninbo, as it is known in Korea, represents one of the major classics of 20th-century Korean Literature. It currently contains 4,001 poems in 30 volumes. Ko Un has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Reference

Reference: Green Integer. "Ten Thousand Lives", https://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?-Ko-Un-Ten-Thousand-Lives-&BookID=132. accessed 21 November 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Ko, Un고은

Born in 1933 in a small rural village in Korea’s North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952, and began writing in the late 1950s. Ten Thousand Lives is his major, ongoing work, which began in prison with a determination to describe every person he had ever met or heard of. It tells the stories of many figures from Korean history, as well as children and poor people, who, without his poems, would have vanished into oblivion. Green Integer also published selections from Vols. 21–25 (2021) and from Vols. 26–30 (2023) of this magnum opus. Maninbo , as it is known in Korea, represents one of the major classics of 20th-century Korean Literature. It currently contains 4,001 poems in 30 volumes. Ko Un has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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