{{short description|South Korean poet (born 1970)}} {{family name hatnote|Moon||lang=Korean}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Mun Tae-jun | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1970}} | birth_place = Gimcheon, South Korea | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer, poet | language = Korean | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Korea University | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | module = {{Infobox Korean name/auto |child=yes |hangul = %문태준 |hanja = 文太俊 }} | website = <!-- www.example.com --> | portaldisp = }} '''Mun Tae-jun''' ({{Korean|문태준}}, born 1970) is a South Korean poet.<ref>"Mun Taejun" Biographical PDF, LTI Korea, p. 1 available at LTI Korea Library or online at: {{cite web |url=http://eng.klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |title=Author Database - Korea Literature Translation Institute |accessdate=2013-05-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607071557/http://eng.klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |archivedate=2013-06-07 }}</ref>
==Career== Mun Tae-jun has published several poetry collections since his prize-winning debut in 1994, and the great artistic potential of his works have gained the attention of many literary artists and critics.<ref>"문태준" LTI Korea Datasheet: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |date=2013-09-21 }}</ref>
Mun Tae-jun's poems employ a comforting language to soothe the wounds of the soul. His poems seek to assuage the pains of those suffering from the violence and oppression of a heartless society. He values "conversation" highly, emphasizing full empathy between two existences, such as when he says, "That over there, is in me here; and I here, am in that over there. Let me respect that which is not me, and therefore those things that are me." The poet aspires to a state in which the subject and object are not distinct form one another, but fused together. In this respect, Mun Tae-jun carries on the traditional lyrical tradition.<ref>"문태준" LTI Korea Datasheet: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do |date=2013-09-21 }}</ref> His poetry collection ''The Development of Dusk'' (2008) was translated to English by Kim Won-Chung and Christopher Merrill and published as ''The Growth of a Shadow'' (2012). A handful of his other works have also been translated.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theamericanreader.com/first-other-poems/|title="First" & Other Poems|website=theamericanreader.com|publisher=The American Reader|accessdate=21 October 2013}}</ref>
==Selected works== ===Works in translation=== * ''The Growth of a Shadow: Selected Poems of Taejoon Moon'' (2012) - translated by Kim Won-Chung and Christopher Merrill {{ISBN|9780982746639}}
===Works in Korean (partial)=== ====Poetry collections==== * ''Crowded Backyard'' ({{lang|ko|수런거리는 뒤란}}, 2000) {{ISBN|978-8-936-42196-0}} * ''Bare Feet'' ({{lang|ko|맨발}}, 2004) {{ISBN|978-8-936-42238-7}} * ''Flatfish'' ({{lang|ko|가재미}}, 2006) {{ISBN|978-8-932-01713-6}} * ''The Development of Dusk'' ({{lang|ko|그늘의 발달}}, 2008) {{ISBN|978-8-932-01881-2}} * ''A Distant Place'' ({{lang|ko|먼 곳}}, 2012) {{ISBN|978-8-936-42343-8}} * ''Our Final Face'' ({{lang|ko|우리들의 마지막 얼굴}}, 2015) {{ISBN|978-8-936-42387-2}} * ''What Is the End of What I Long For?'' ({{lang|ko|내가 사모하는 일에 무슨 끝이 있나요}}, 2018) {{ISBN|978-8-954-65017-5}}
====Prose collections==== * ''Embrace: Holding You, I Am Stained'' ({{lang|ko|포옹 - 당신을 안고 내가 물든다}}, 2007)
==Awards== * Dongseo Literary Prize (2004) * Nojak Literary Prize (2004) * Midang Literary Award (2005) - for "누가 울고 간다" * Yushim Literary Prize (2006) * Sowol Poetry Prize (2006) - for "그맘때에는"
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