Sangnam Nam Biography

Bio:
Sangnam Nam was born in South Korea in 1959.
She attended Kyunghee University majoring in
English Language and Literature. University of
Northern Colorado (UNC) 's English, Reading and
Special Education Department also hosted her
in their Graduate Programs.
Her first poem was written on her Middle school
graduation day in 1975, a long prose poem about her years
in the middle school with her friends now were
graduating. The short poems came about in
1997 when she returned her homeland from the US.
After that in 2008 and in 2013,
some sporadic writings of poems were practiced.
However, Sangnam Nam was and has always been
a poet with her keen observations of things and people
around her with insight and love.
Her real work came about on August 17,2023
when she wrote a poem called 'Scott'. Sangnam Nam
studied Nietzsche and his theory of Superhuman;
Studied contemporary song lyrics of singers including
Simon and Garfunkel, Elvis and The Beatles;
History of Rock ‘n Roll, Book of Psalms, Shi Jing(? ?) ,
The NIV Bible and many others also influenced
Her writing. Her favorite authors Include
Dostoevsky, Bible Writers, Sophocles, and Homer.

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Books I have Read:
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gorky and Solzhenitsyn of Russia;
Zola, Balzac, Maupassant, Hugo, Gide, Saint-Exupery,
Sagan and Sartre of France; Remarque, Hesse, Kafka,
Luise Rinser, Rilke of Germany; Brontes, Shakespeare,
Maugham, Dickens, Hardy, Sir Conan Doyle and Huxley of England;
Robert Stevens, Swift, Becket, Shaw, Lewis and Wilde of Ireland;
Dreiser, Hawthorne, Steinbeck, O Henry, Poe, Hemingway,
Richard Bach and Erich Segal of the US;
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Some more of the authors I have read:
The Divine Comedy by Dante,
Dr. Faust by Goethe,
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan,
The Prince by Machiavelli, and
The Art of War by Sun Tzu