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Place of Birth: Taipei
About Li Kuei-hsien
- Li Kuei-hsien (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Li KuÃxián; Pe?h-oe-ji: Là Khoe-hiân; born 1937) is a Taiwanese author and poet.
- He began writing poems in 1953 upon his graduation from the Taipei Institute of Technology.
- He is noted for writing extended verse in Taiwanese Hokkien and represents an influential figure in the Taiwanese literature movement.
- Li's work today appears in multi-volume sets of collected poems published in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
- His "February 28th Incident Requiem" was set to music in 2008 by composer Fan-Long Ko.
- Translations of Li's poems have been published in Japan, Korea, Russia, New Zealand, Mongolia, India, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and Canada.
- Li has also translated poems and edited collections of modern poems from Italy and other European sources.
- Li has served as chair of Taiwan's National Culture and Arts Foundation.
- Since 1976 he has been a member of the International Academy of Poets in England.
- He founded the Taiwan P.E.N.
- in 1987 and has served as the organizations president.
- He has been awarded Korea's Distinguished Asian Poet award (1994), the Rong-hou Taiwanese Poet Prize (1997), India's Poets International Prize (2000), Taiwan's Lai Ho Literature Prize and Premier Culture Prize (2001), the Michael Madhusadan Poet Award (2002), the Wu San-lien Prize in Literature (2004) and Poet Medal of the Mongolian Cultural Foundation (2005).
- In 2001 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the International Poets Academy of India.
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