Li Kuei-shien started publishing poetry in 1953. In 1964, he joined the
Li Poetry. Proficient in
German, he was responsible for selecting German poems. Lee also ventured into the magazine publishing industry, serving as the production editor of the
Invention magazine, president of
Invention World magazine, and publisher of the
Invention Enterprise magazine. Li served as chair of Taiwan's
National Culture and Arts Foundation. Since 1976 he has been a member of the
International Academy of Poets in England. In 1986, he established the
Celebrity Publishing House and published two-book series: the Taiwan Library and the World Library. He founded the
Taiwan PEN in 1987, and served as the organisation's president. Li translated primarily German literature and is best known for his translations of
Rilke. From the 1980s, he was committed to promoting international exchanges of poetry. He has also held positions such as adjunct professor at
Chung Cheng University's Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, executive director of the
Taiwan Provincial Inventors Association (now the
Taiwan International Invention Award Winners Association), first-term executive director of the
Chinese Poetry Society, president of the
Taiwan PEN, founding member of the
International Poets Academy, and chairman of the
National Culture and Arts Foundation. He was an advisor to the
Li Poetry and
Literary Taiwan. Li was awarded Korea's Distinguished Asian Poet award (1994), the Rong-hou Taiwanese Poet Prize (1997), India's Poets International Prize (2000), Taiwan's Lai Ho Literature Prize and Premier Culture Prize (2001), the Michael Madhusadan Poet Award (2002), the Wu San-lien Prize in Literature (2004) and Poet Medal of the Mongolian Cultural Foundation (2005). He was nominated three times as a candidate for the
Nobel Prize in Literature by the
Indian International Society of Poets in 2001, 2003, and 2006. ==See also==