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.