Heo Su-gyeong
Heo Su-gyeong (1964 – 3 October 2018) was a Korean poet. Life Heo Su-gyeong was born in 1964 in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do. She majored in Korean literature in Gyeongsang National University. Heo made her literary debut at the age of twenty-three in 1987 at the magazine Practical literature (Silchonmunhak,실천문학) with her poetry, and published her first volume of poetry There’s Not A Fodder Like Sorrow (슬픔만한 거름이 어디 있으랴). In 1992, She published her second volume of poetry Alone To A Distant House (혼자 가는 먼 집). After she published these two volumes of poetry and became a star of the korean poetry scene, She left Korea abruptly to Germany. While in Germany, she pursued a doctorate degree in Ancient Near East archaeology in the Department of Ancient Oriental Studies at University of Münster. In 2003 she married Reinhard Dittmann, a german archaeologist of the Near East. Work The Digital library of Korean literature comments on her work that "She 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