台灣藝術家英文簡傳（14）－詩人李魁賢Poet Lee Kuei-Shien

 



台灣藝術家英文簡傳（14）－詩人李魁賢  Poet Lee Kuei-Shien

編輯／邱斐顯 

Editior／Felicity Fei-Hsien Chiu 







A note about Lee Kuei-Shien

Lee Kuei-Hsien, born in Taipei in 1937, is a famous poet who graduated from Taipei Institute of Technology. He first started to write poems in 1953 and by 1976, had become a member of the International Academy of Poets in England . He helped to establish the Taiwan PEN, and was elected vice president of the organizing in 1987 and president in 1995.

His poems have been translated and published in Canada , Greece , India , Japan , Korea , Mongolia , the Netherlands , New Zealand , Romania , Russia , Spain , the U.S. and Yugoslavia .

His awards include Merit of Asian Poet, Korea (1994); Taiwanese Poet Prize (1997); Poets International, India (1998); Poet of the Millennium Award, International Poets Academy, India (2000); and Lai Ho Literature Prize and Premier Culture Prize, both in Taiwan (2001). He was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the International Poets Academy, India, bringing great honor to Taiwanese literature, even as a nominee for the prize.

He also received the Michael Madhusudan Best Poet Award from the Michael Madhusudan Academy (2000), the Wu San-Lien Prize in Literature (2004) and the Poet Medal from the Mongolian Cultural Foundation (2005).

 

He has attended international poetry festivals in El Salvador , Japan , Korea , India , Mongolia , Nicaragua and the U.S. He served as Chairman of the National Culture and Arts Foundation from 2005 to 2007.

 

Photo courtesy of Lee Kuei-Shien 





The above information is edited by Felicity Fei-Hsien CHIU（邱斐顯）, former editor of center of web and wireless news service, the Central News Agency.