Poet Kim Hye-soon Wins Nojak Literary Award
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- Poet Kim Hye-soon has won the 26th Nojak Literary Award for her 2025 collection “Synchronized Sea Anemone.”
- Poet Kim Tae-hyung received the award’s regional prize for “Ten Sheep That Cannot Be Counted.”
- The awards ceremony will take place on October 24 at the Nojak Hong Sa-yong Literary Museum in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province.
Poet Kim Hye-soon has won the 26th Nojak Literary Award for her collection “Synchronized Sea Anemone,” published by Nanda in 2025.
The Nojak Hong Sa-yong Literary Museum selected the work on September 2. The award was established in 2001 to honor poet Hong Sa-yong, whose pen name was Nojak. During the Japanese colonial period, Hong founded the literary coterie magazine Baekjo and led a Romantic poetry movement.
Kim Tae-hyung won the award’s regional prize, which is open to writers living in Gyeonggi Province, including Hwaseong, Hong Sa-yong’s hometown. His winning work was “Ten Sheep That Cannot Be Counted,” published by Blue Paper.
The prizes are worth 20 million won and 10 million won, respectively. The ceremony will be held on October 24 at the Nojak Hong Sa-yong Literary Museum in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province.
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