Li Kuei-hsien (Chinese: 李魁賢; pinyin: Lǐ Kuíxián; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Khoe-hiân; 19 June 1937 – 15 January 2025) was a Taiwanese author, poet, cultural critic, translator, and inventor, born in Taihoku during the period of Japanese rule.
Li's work today appears in multi-volume sets of collected poems published in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
Translations of Li's poems have been published in Japan, Korea, Russia, New Zealand, Mongolia, India, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and Canada.
[4] 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 nominated three times as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Indian International Society of Poets in 2001, 2003, and 2006.