Heo Nanseolheon

Heo Nanseolheon
Hangul
허초희
Hanja
許楚姬
RRHeo Chohui
MRHŏ Ch'ohŭi
Art name
Hangul
허난설헌
Hanja
許蘭雪軒
RRHeo Nanseolheon
MRHŏ 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).