Heo Nanseolheon

Heo Nanseolheon
1997 Portrait of Heo Nanseolheon painted by Professor Son Yeon-chil of Dongguk University
Korean name
Hangul
허초희
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHeo Cho-hui
McCune–ReischauerHŏ Ch'o-hŭi
Art name
Hangul
허난설헌
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHeo Nanseolheon
McCune–ReischauerHŏ 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]

  1. ^ Choe-Wall, Yang-hi. Vision of a Phoenix: the Poems of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn. Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2003. Print.