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Daesan Literary Awards for Young Writers
HISTORY
2008
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The Daesan Literary Awards for Young Writers seeks to refine and nurture young writers and to aid in their overall educational development; the award aims to discover and train literary talents who will play a leading role in the future of Korean literature. Works of poetry and fiction by students from middle and high schools across Korea are screened, and the students producing the finest works are invited to a writing camp attended by a number of writers. A winning work is selected among the students invited. Prize-winning works are published in a widely-distributed anthology; the Foundation will support the meeting of young writers and the publishing of a literary magazine in order to nurture and foster literary skills and friendly relations.
In 2008, 1,503 people submitted their works. A committee composed of six prominent writers was entrusted with evaluating the submitted works and the organization of the camp, and a total of 80 candidates were selected.
A literary competition was organized during the camp, and 34 award winners were chosen: the grand prize winners were Park Jinseon (senior at Suri High School in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province) and Jeon Yeowon (junior at Jangy Senior High School in the South Gyeoungnam Province). The award-winning works were published in a collection titled I Sold My Bass Guitar.
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These grants are designed to support institutions or individuals in foreign countries involved in the study of some aspect of Korean literature; grants are given to stimulate the study of Korean literature overseas and to spark interest in Korean culture and literature across the world, in addition to disseminating pertinent information and knowledge. Grants are given for the study, translation and publication of books about Korean literature; to provide support for academic conferences on Korean literature; to provide scholarships for students majoring in Korean literature; and for the acquisition of Korean literature.
In 2008, 24 applications were received, and priority was given to projects designed to promote Korean literature abroad. As a result, fourteen projects were approved, including six translation and publication projects including the Japanese translation and publication of the Literary World of Kim Girim, three translation projects including the Chinese translation of Sim Cheong 1,2 by Hwang Seokyeong and two other projects, one study project that studied "The Origin and Development of Modern Korean Poetry" written in Chinese, one scholarship project that studied "A Comparative Study of Korean and Chinese Literary Works Regarding the Manbosan Incident", and three other projects including funding given to Notre Dame University for the teaching of Korean literature and two other projects. Furthermore, six books including Landscape Korean Poetry were translated and published in Bulgarian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Urdu among other languages.