Pak Tu-jin

Pak Du-jin was born in 1916 in Anseong, in Gyeonggi, to a peasant family too poor to send him beyond primary school, and he was self-taught. Employed until liberation, he then entered publishing, where he met Cho Chi-hun and Pak Mok-wol, with whom he published a joint collection in 1946. He taught for many years at Yonsei University, then at other institutions. His poetry moved from nature to political criticism and to Christian faith. He received, among other honours, the Inchon Prize in 1988 and died on 16 September 1998.

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• Poetry향현Pak Tu-jin · 1939not translated into EnglishLiterature