# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-hyesoon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:25:51.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-hyesoon"
name: "Kim Hyesoon"
slug: "kim-hyesoon"
description: "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."
tagline: "South Korean poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Poesiefestival_Berlin_2023_-_Kim_Hyesoon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.166669333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E6%83%A0%E9%A0%86"
    title: "金惠順"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyesoon"
    title: "Kim Hyesoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyesoon"
    title: "Kim Hyesoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyesoon"
    title: "Kim Hyesoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyesoon"
    title: "Kim Hyesoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyesoon"
    title: "Kim Hyesoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "קים הייסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E6%83%A0%E9%A0%86"
    title: "金惠順"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%ED%98%9C%EC%88%9C"
    title: "김혜순"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyesoon"
    title: "Kim Hyesoon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14623809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump