Heo Nanseolheon | |
Korean name | |
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Hangul | 허초희 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Heo Cho-hui |
McCune–Reischauer | Hŏ Ch'o-hŭi |
Art name | |
Hangul | 허난설헌 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Heo Nanseolheon |
McCune–Reischauer | Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn |
Heo Nanseolheon (1563 – 19 March 1589), was a Korean painter and poet of the mid-Joseon dynasty. She was the younger sister of Heo Bong, a politician and political writer, and elder to Heo Gyun, a prominent writer of the time and credited as the author of The Tale of Hong Gildong. Her own writings consisted of some two hundred poems written in Chinese verse (hanshi), and two poems written in hangul (though her authorship of the hangul poems is contested).[1]