Cho Ki-chon

North Korean poet (1913–1951)

Cho Ki-chon (Korean: 조기천; 6 November 1913 – 31 July 1951) was a Soviet-born North Korean poet. He is regarded as a national poet and "founding father of North Korean poetry" whose distinct Soviet-influenced style of lyrical epic poetry in the socialist realist genre became an important feature of North Korean literature. He was nicknamed "Korea's Mayakovsky" after the writer whose works had had an influence on him and which implied his breaking from the literature of the old society and his commitment to communist values.

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