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Korean poets Ko Un who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2011 is among more than 80 international poets attending the festival
More than 80 poets from 27 countries and territories around the world have arrived in Vietnam to attend the 1st Asian-Pacific Poetry Festival, which is opening in the northern province of Quang Ninh today.
Titled “Poetry for a Peaceful, Co-operative and Developed Asia-Pacific,” the 3-day event also benefits from the participation of 40 local poets.
The foreign guests include such world-renowned names as Ko Un, the Korean poetwho was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2011 and Ahn Kuyn Hwan, also from Korea, who translated Ho Chi Minh’s noted poem collection “Nhat Ky Trong Tu” (Diary in Jail) into Korean.
American poet Lady Borton who received the Peace Award by the War Resisters League under the London-based War Resisters' International organization in 1988, and Ban'ya Natsuishi, chairman of the Japanese Haiku Poem Association are also among special festival guests.
According to the schedule, the poets will attend a seminar titled “Peaceful, Co-operative and Developed Asia-Pacific,” a poem reading session, Vietnamese Traditional Poem Day and a meeting with President Truong Tan Sang.
