Poetry and Thought Newcomer Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 2 (1981) award
Susumu Morita
もりた すすむ
Morita Susumu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1941-04-26 （Urawa, Saitama, Japan (now Saitama City)）
- Died
- 2018-07-27 age 77
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Religion
- Christianity
- Residence History
- Urawa, Saitama, Japan → South Korea (served as visiting professor)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, university professor, editor, teacher
- Active Years
- 1960-2018
- Affiliations
- Japan Poets Club, Japan Christian Poets Association
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baiko Jogakuin High School | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters | Faculty of Letters | Aesthetics | — | — | Japan |
| Waseda University, First Faculty of Letters | First Faculty of Letters | Department of Japanese Literature | — | — | Japan |
Baiko Jogakuin High School
Country:
Japan
Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters
Faculty of Letters
/ Aesthetics
Country:
Japan
Waseda University, First Faculty of Letters
First Faculty of Letters
/ Department of Japanese Literature
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Chikyu Prize (Earth Prize) | Anthology of Zainichi Korean Poetry: 1916–2004 | — | — | winner |
Chikyu Prize (Earth Prize)
2005
Work:
Anthology of Zainichi Korean Poetry: 1916–2004
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
From a Coastal Province
1971 Poetry collectionAn early collection portraying regional landscapes and people in lyrical poems.
regionnaturenostalgia
Breast Peninsula · 1978
1980 Poetry collectionA collection featuring poems using peninsular imagery as a motif.
peninsulabodymemory
Hare Peninsula
1985 Poetry collectionA poetry collection that probes the relationship between nature and humans.
naturesolitudelocality
Arirang Peninsula (Korean translation)
1994 Translated poetry collectionA Korean-language translation collection reflecting his experiences in Korea and poems about Zainichi Koreans.
Zainichi Koreansexchangeconflict
Translations
- Arirang Peninsula (Korean translation)
Bibliography
- From a Coastal Province (1971)
- Words and Soul: The World of the Poet (1973)
- Words and Soul - Poetry and Christianity - New Edition (1977)
- Illness in Literature (1978)
- Breast Peninsula · 1978 (1980)
- The World of Contemporary Poets - Korea, God, Indigenous - (1984)
- Hare Peninsula (1985)
- Arirang Peninsula (1994) (Korean translation collection)
- Poetry and Hansen's Disease (2003)
- Anthology of Zainichi Korean Poetry: 1916–2004 (2005) (co-authored)
- Easter Poetry Collection (2006) (editor)
- Offering of Words: Susumu Morita Sermons (2019)
Translations of Works
- Arirang Peninsula (Korean translation)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyrical expressionpoetry combining regional characteristics and social issuesChristian symbolic elements
- Recurring Motifs
- seapeninsulamemoryreligion (Christianity)Zainichi Korean
Legacy
Recognized for poetry and editorial work that addresses regionality, Christian perspectives, and socially marginalized topics such as Zainichi Koreans and Hansen's disease; contributed to discovering and nurturing regional poets.
Academic Societies
- Japan Poets Club
- Japan Christian Poets Association
Archives
- National Diet Library holdings / authority
- National Diet Library (NDL) identifier
Trivia
- Served as editor-in-chief of the national poetry magazine 'Shi to Shiso' and worked to discover and support poets living outside major urban centers.
- In 1978 he went to teach as a visiting professor at a university in South Korea with his family; that experience influenced his poetry.
- Co-authored the 'Anthology of Zainichi Korean Poetry' with Aki Sagawa and won the 2005 Chikyu Prize.