Heo Su-gyeong
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Heo Su-gyeong | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 |
| Died | 3 October 2018 (aged 54) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Korean |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Citizenship | South Korean |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Heo Su-gyeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Hŏ Sukyŏng |
Heo Su-gyeong (1964 – 3 October 2018)[1] was a Korean poet.[2]
Life
Heo Su-gyeong was born in 1964 in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do.[3] Heo after a brilliant literary debut at the age of twenty-three, left Korea abruptly after publishing just two volumes of poetry. She currently resides in Germany, pursuing a doctorate degree in Philology in the Department of Ancient Oriental Studies at Universität Münster.[4] In 2003 she married Reinhard Dittmann, a german archaeologists of the Near East.
Work
Heo infuses her poetry with the lyricism and the images taken from traditional Korean folktales and songs, thereby creating a uniquely Korean modern poetry free of western modernist influence. It can be said that distancing herself from her native tongue by living in a foreign environment is in itself the poet’s attempt to bring herself closer to the essence of the Korean language.[5] In Heo's poems life is broken into pieces, filled with agony, incoherent, and loveless.[6]
Works in Korean (partial)
- There’s Not A Fodder Like Sorrow (Seulpeummanhan georeumi oedi iteurya, 1988)
- Alone To A Distant House (Honja ganeun meon jip, 1992)
- Though My Soul is Old (Nae yeonghoneun orae doieoteuna, 2001).
References
- ^ 독일서 눈 감은 허수경 시인…향년 54세(종합2보) Template:Ko icon
- ^ Heo Su-gyeong [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055413/http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "허수경 시인". http://people.search.naver.com/search.naver?where=people&sm=tab_ppn&query=%ED%97%88%EC%88%98%EA%B2%BD&os=416803&ie=utf8. Naver. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ^ "허수경" LTI Korea Datasheet: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "허수경" LTI Korea Datasheet: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Twentieth-Century Korean Literature, Yi Nam-ho, U Ch’anje, Yi Kwangho, Kim Mihyŏn, Translated by Youngju Ryu Edited by Brother Anthony, of Taizé. p. 77
