Do Jong-Hwan's "I Will Go to Silence" and Kim Sun-Woo's "Happy Birthday" Win the Pyeonun Literary Award

A Literary Award Honoring the Legacy of Poet Cho Byung-Hwa

Judges Praise "Remarkable Resilience" and "Imaginative Spirit"

Poets Do Jong-Hwan and Kim Sun-Woo have been awarded the 36th Pyeonun Literary Award.

36th Pyeonun Literary Award Winners Poets Jong-Hwan Do (left) and Sunwoo Kim. Pyeonun Literary Award Steering Committee

According to the Cho Byung-Hwa Literary Museum on May 11, Do Jong-Hwan's poetry collection "I Will Go to Silence" and Kim Sun-Woo's collection "Happy Birthday" were selected as this year's winning works for the Pyeonun Literary Award.

The panel of judges described Do Jong-Hwan's "I Will Go to Silence" as "a collection that demonstrates remarkable resilience." Regarding Kim Sun-Woo's "Happy Birthday," they commented that it is "a poetry collection that exhibits an imaginative spirit rarely seen in contemporary Korean poetry."

The Pyeonun Literary Award was established in 1990 by poet Cho Byung-Hwa, who named it after his pen name, Pyeonun (meaning 'a piece of cloud'). The award aims to encourage emerging poets and honor achievements in poetry literature.

The award ceremony was held on May 9 at the Cho Byung-Hwa Literary Museum in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province.

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