KB One

KB a (in Hangul: 고은 ) is a South Korean poet born the January 8th 1933 with Gunsan. Its pen name is Ho.

In 1952, it adheres to the Bouddhisme and becomes monk. In 1958, sponsored by the poet Cho Ji-hun, it makes appear a poem in the modern review Poésie . It leaves the Buddhist community in 1962. Starting from 1970, it engages in the fight against the dictatorship. After the relative democratization of the country, in 1988, it militates for the reunification of the Korean peninsula and visit the North Korea.

It received the price of the Korean Writers (1974), the price Manhae (1989), the Joong-Ang price (1991) and the price Daesan (1994). In its first collections, KB One is not inspired only Buddhism, it is also interested in the thought Chrétienne, and it endeavors at the same time to find a balance between the traditions Orient ales and the universality of the Hellénisme. Later, it is still the poetry which will enable him to surmount the Nihilisme, which is spread among intellectuals. He will denounce the violation of the Human rights and the inequality of the social classes, which will be worth several times the imprisonment to him. After 1985, it will turn more and more to the life of the individuals and the history of its country.

A poem

Under a wild pear tree The shade of the tree is alive Nothing, more I read, more I feel your presence The danger where I am, nobody knew I turn a page You proliferous in the following page! (Translation by Kim Bona)

Works

KB Published very many collections of poems, of which the feeling of beyond the (1960), At the edge of the sea (1966), God. Language. Last village (1967), At the village of Mooni (1974), Ten thousand lives (20 volumes, 1986 - 2003), Baekdoo Mount (7 volumes, 1987 - 1994), Your eyes (1988), Dew of the morning (1990), Tomorrow the song (1992), a monument (1997), a long way (1999), South and North (2000), sudden Fleur (2001), Of the poems, the regrets (2002), late Songs (2002), complete Works (38 volumes, 2002).

Which is this? poems Zen , translated from Korean by Semi-Suk No and Alain Génetiot, Paris, Maisonneuve and Larose, 2000;
Under a wild pear tree , translated from Korean by Han Dae-Kyun and Gilles Cyr, Belval (France), Circé Editions, 2004.

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