New Delhi, May 9 -- Despite the craze for Korean literature in India, you'd be hard-pressed to find an Indian fan who knows of Don Mee Choi. She writes poetry, not fiction. She translates as much as she writes. And her poetry offers no easy resolution; it is fragmentary, interdisciplinary and reckless with literary convention.

The 63-year-old-who has won a pantheon of literary honours, including a Whiting Award, a National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur "genius grant"-was in Mumbai in April for the Almost Island Dialogues, an annual series of literary conversations among prominent writers from around the world. She spoke with Lounge about her work, the popularity of Korean literature, and how her own preoccupations m...