# Kim Hyesoon

> Kim Hyesoon is a South Korean poet. She was the first woman poet to receive the Kim Su-yeong Literature Award, Midang Literary Award, Contemporary Poetry Award, and Daesan Literary Awards. She has also received the Griffin Poetry Prize (2019), the Cikada Prize, the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2022), U.K Royal Society of Literature International writer (2022), and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the first foreign poet laureate to win the award. In 2025, she received Internationale Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt for *Autobiographie des Todes*. It was the first time in the award’s history that a poetry collection was honored.

*South Korean poet*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** South Korea
- **Born:** 1955-10-26
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

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