Cho Ki-cheon

A North Korean poet. Born to a poor farmer in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province. He moved to Siberia at a young age. After graduating from Gorki University of Education in Omsk, he taught at the Korean Normal University in Kshir-Orta in Central Asia while writing poetry. In August 1945, he joined the struggle for the liberation of his homeland. He wrote poetry while editing the Chosun Shinmun. In addition to short poems such as Song of the Earth (1946) on the theme of land reform, his works include the epic poem Mt. Paektu (1947), which depicts the struggle of Kim Il-sung and other anti-Japanese partisans, Song of Life (1950), which reflects the new life of workers, and the syllable series Fighting Yeosu (1948), which deals with the Yeosu incident. In March 1951, he was elected vice-chairman of the General Union of Korean Literature and Art, but was killed in battle in October of the same year.

[Kim Hak-ryol]

"Mount Paektu" translated by Heo Nam-ki (1974, Taihei Publishing House)

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北朝鮮の詩人。咸鏡(かんきょう)北道会寧(フェリョン)の貧農出身。幼少時にシベリアへ移住。オムスク・ゴーリキー師範大学を卒業後、中央アジアにあるクシル・オルタ朝鮮師範大学で教鞭(きょうべん)をとるかたわら詩を創作。1945年8月祖国解放の戦闘に加わる。『朝鮮新聞』編集にあたりながら詩作。土地改革をテーマとした『土のうた』（1946）などの短詩のほか、金日成ら抗日パルチザンの闘いを描いた叙事詩『白頭山』（1947）、労働者の新生活を反映した『生のうた』（1950）、麗水(ヨス)事件を扱った連詩『闘う麗水』（1948）などがある。51年3月朝鮮文学芸術総同盟副委員長に選ばれたが、同年10月に戦死した。

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『許南麒訳『白頭山』（1974・太平出版社）』

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