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Hwang Ji-U was born in 1952 in Haenam, South Joella Province. A graduate of Seoul National University’s Aesthetics Department, he first appeared in the Korean poetry scene when his poem “History” won the JoongAng Ilbo New Writers Award and his other poems including “For Days Without Answers” were published in Literature and Intellect in 1980. He was a professor of creative writing at Hanshin University and a professor of writing at the Korea National University of Arts, where he also served as president. The author of the poetry collections Even Birds Leave the World, From Winter Trees to Spring Trees, I Am You, The Lotus Flower in a Crab’s Eye, and One Day I’ll Be Sitting in a Hazy Tavern, Hwang Ji-U has received the 1983 Kim Suyeong Literary Award, the 1991 Contemporary Literature Award, the 1993 Sowol Poetry Award, the 1999 Baek Seok Literary Award, and the 1999 Daesan Literary Award, and was awarded the Jade Crown Class Order of Cultural Merit in 2006 by the President of South Korea.