Back to Heaven Selected Poems of Ch'on Sang Pyong, English Language Edition (Cornell East Asia, No. 77) (Cornell East Asia Series Volume 77) Tapa blanda - 1995

Brother Anthony of Taiz (An Sonjae) was born in 1942 in the UK. He studied Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford and in 1969 he joined the Taiz Community in France. He taught English literature at Sogang University, Seoul, for nearly three decades. He is emeritus professor at Sogang University and chair-professor at Dankook University. Since 1990, he has published more than forty volumes of translated works by such esteemed Korean authors as Ku Sang, Ko Un, Cheon Sang-byeong, Shin Kyeong-nim, Park Yuhui, Yi Mun-yol, and Do Jong-hwan. Since January 2011, he has been president of the Royal Asiatic Society s Korea branch. He received the Korean government s Award of Merit, Jade Crown class, in October 2008 for his work to spread knowledge of Korean literature throughout the world. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary MBE (Member of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth for his contributions to Anglo-Korean relations.