Sowol Poetry Prize
The So-Wol Poetry Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Korea. Established by Moonhaksasangsa, a publishing company, in 1986,[1] the prize aims to commemorate the soul of poetry of Kim Sowol.
The awardees are selected through a two round process, in which published poems are first selected, then evaluated by university professors, literary critics, poets, editors-in-chief of literary magazine, and journalists in literary fields (1st round). The first round also includes the results from enquiries asked of the readers of Moonhaksasang, the literary magazine published by Moonhaksasangsa. Then, as the final round, 10 works of poetry are decided through the discussion among renowned literary critics and poets: one earns the grand prize, the rest are titled as the recommended objet de vertu.[2]
Every year, Moonhaksasangsa publishes the collection of awarded poems.
List of the Awardees and the title of the Poems in chronological order
Prize Year | Title | Author |
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1986 | <๊ทธ๋ฆ 1> The Bowl 1 | Oh, Seyoung |
1987 | <์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋๋ผ์ ์ฒ๊ณผ ์๋ค> The Forest and Birds of Our Nation | Song, Soogwon |
1988 | <์์ง๊ฐ์์> At the Imjin River | Chung, Hoseung |
1989 | <์จ๊ธธ ์ ์๋ ๋ ธ๋> A Telltale Song | Lee, Seong-bok |
1990 | <๋ ๋๋ ํ์ > Roaming Metonymy | Kim, Seunghee |
1991 | <ๅฑฑ้ ๅขๅฐ> Sanjeongmyoji (A grave is quiet in a mountain) | Cho, Chung-kwon |
1992 | <ํ์์ ์ค๋ฅด๋ค> Ascending Hwaum | Kim, Myeongin |
1993 | <๋ผ์ ๋ฆฐ ํํ> A Lonely Painful Regret | Hwang, Jiwoo |
1994 | <๊ณ ๋๋ฅผ ์ํ์ฌ> For Godo | Im, Youngjo |
1995 | <๋จ์ถ๋ฅผ ์ฑ์ฐ๋ฉด์> Fastening Buttons | Chun, Yanghee |
1996 | <ํค ํฐ ๋จ์๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด> On Seeing a Tall Man | Moon, Jeonghee |
1997 | <์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅผ๊น> Why People Do Not Know | Kim, Yongtaek |
1998 | <๊ณ ๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ> Waiting for a Whale | Ahn, Dohyeon |
1999 | <์ฌ๋์ผ๋ก ๋๋> By Love, I | Kim, Jeonglan |
2000 | <์ ์ต์ ์ฌ๊ณผ> A Well-ripened Apple | Kim, Hyesoon |
2001 | <๋ฐฑ๋ จ์ฌ ๋๋ฐฑ์ฒ๊ธธ์์> On the Road of Camellia Woods of Baekryeon Temple | Ko, Jaejong |
2002 | <์ง๊ตฌ์ ๊ฐ์> Autumns of Earth | Lee, Moonjae |
2003 | <๋ฅ๊ทผ, ์ด๋จธ๋์ ๋๋ ๋ฐฅ์> Around, Momโs Doorae Table | Chung, ilgeun |
2004 | <์๋ฌด๋ฅด ๊ฐ๊ฐ์์> On the Side of Amur River | Park, Chungdae |
2005 | <์๊ฐ์ ๋๊ณต> The Pupil of Time | Park, Jootaek |
2006 | <๊ทธ๋ง๋์๋> Around that Time Moon | Moon, Taejoon |
2007 | <์ถ์ฌ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ ๋ฐฉ> In the Room Where Island Seop Is Seen | Na, Heedeok |
2008 | <ํฌ๋ํฐ ์ > A Great Grand Sleep | Chung, Kkeutbyeol |
2009 | <๊ฐ์ด์ ํํ ๊ณ ๋ ์ธ์๋> Except the Bright Beat of My Heart | Park, Hyungjoon |
2010 | <๊ณต์ค> In Air | Song, Jaehak |
2011 | <๋ณต์ฌ๊ฝ ์๋ ์ฒ๋ > A Thousand Year Under the Peach Blossoms | Bae, Hanbong |
2012 | <๊ธธ ์์ ์์ฌ> A Meal On the Road | Lee, Jaemoo |
2013 | <๋ถ์ฒ-๊น๋ง๊ท> Bukcheon-Crow | Yoo, Hongjoon[3] |