Chou, the king of the "Lonely Land," was among the first winners of the National Award for the Arts. A trailblazer who set the standard for Taiwanese contemporary poetry, he still regularly tills the fields of literary imagination, his poetic spirit inexhaustible.
身為「孤獨國」國王的詩人周夢蝶，曾榮獲首屆國家文藝獎，在台灣現代詩壇，周公具啟蒙與指標性地位，至今他仍創作不輟，詩心如泉汩汩不竭，持續筆耕文學夢田。