Don Mee Choi
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Born1962 (age 63–64)
Seoul, South Korea
NationalityAmerican
EducationCalifornia Institute of the Arts BFA '84; MFA '86
GenrePoetry
Don Mee Choi | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) Seoul, South Korea |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | California Institute of the Arts BFA '84; MFA '86 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | DMZ Colony |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award, MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Award for Poetry |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 최돈미 |
| Hanja | 崔燉美[1] |
| RR | Choe Donmi |
| MR | Ch'oe Tonmi |
Don Mee Choi (Korean: 최돈미; born 1962[2]) is a Korean-American poet and translator.
Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, educated in the United States, and now lives in Berlin, Germany. Choi's works of documentary poetry draw on family history as well as archival material to interrogate "the overlapping histories of Korea and the U.S."[3] In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by Kim Hyesoon.[4]
Awards
- 2011: Whiting Award
- 2012: Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon
- 2016: Lannan Literary Fellowship Award
- 2019: Griffin Poetry Prize Award for translation of Autobiography of Death from the Korean written by Kim Hyesoon
- 2020: National Book Award for Poetry for DMZ Colony
- 2021: Guggenheim Fellowship Poetry[5]
- 2021: MacArthur Fellows Program[6]
- 2021: Royal Society of Literature International Writer[7]
- 2025: shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize for Mirror Nation[8]
