Ra Heeduk

Ra Heeduk
Hangeul	나희덕
Hanja	羅 喜 徳
Revised Romanization	Well, hee-deok
McCune- Reischauer	Well Hi-dŏk
See also : Korean name

Ra Heeduk (born February 8, 1966 in Nonsan , Ch'ungch'ŏngnam-do ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Ra Heeduk was born on February 8, 1966 in Nonsan , South Ch'ungch'ŏng Province . She grew up in an orphanage where her parents - devout Christians - worked in administration. Ra claims that the experience of growing up with orphans turned her into a precocious child and made her understand the difference between herself and her playmates at an early age, which gave her a unique worldview.

It was more of a coincidence that Ra's life turned on the lyric . Caught between her parents' religious ideas and the causes of the student movements she faced during her time at university, she sought salvation in poetry.

Her poetic imagination is rooted in the vitality and growth manifested in motherhood and plant life. Her early works pierce the fog of hypocrisy and contradiction that lingers over our everyday lives, yet they maintain a mood of forgiveness and maternal warmth. In their works there are mothers who take on a lot of misery in order to raise their children. The tenderness with which the author hugs this complicated world is rooted in her absolute belief in the life force that makes trees grow and breast milk flows. She is constantly searching for the source of this life force, and in order to become receptive to the things that nature communicates to her, she hears with her eyes and sees with her ears.

Work

Korean

Poetry collections

• 뿌리 에게 For the Roots (1991)
• 그 말이 잎 을 물 들였다 The Words Colored the Leaves (1994)
• 그곳 이 멀지 않다 It's Not Far Away (1997)
• 어두워 진다 는 것 That which gets darker (2001)
• 마른 물고기 처럼 Like a Dried Fish (2002)
• 사라진 손바닥 The disappearing palm (2004)
• 누가 울고 간다 Somebody Goes Crying (2004)

Essays

• 반통 의 물 Pant'ong's Water (1999)
• 상상 은 겸손한 발걸음 이다 Introducing Is A Modest Step (2003)

Others

• 조각 이불 Quilt (2001) - translation
• 모두 잠 이 들어요 Everything falls asleep (2001) - translation
• 보랏빛 은 어디 에서 오는가 Where does the purple come from? (2003)

Translations

English

• What is darkening. Jain Pub, 2007, ISBN 978-0-89581-840-9 .
• Scale and stairs. White Pine Pr. 2009, ISBN 978-1-893996-24-3 .

Awards

• 2007 - 제 22 회 소월 시 문학상 대상 ( Sowŏl Literature Prize for Poems )
• 2006 - 제 21 회 소월 시 문학상 우수상 ( Sowŏl Literature Prize for Poems )
• 2005 - 제 17 회 이산 문학상 ( Yi-San Literature Prize )
• 2005 - 제 01 회 일연 문학상 ( Ilyŏn Literature Prize )
• 2003 - 제 48 회 현대 문학상 ( Prize for Contemporary Literature )
• 2001 - 오늘 의 젊은 예술 가상 문학 부문 ( Prize for Young Artists of Today )
• 2001 - 김달진 문학상 ( Kim Tal-jin Literature Prize )
• 1998 - 제 17 회 김수영 문학상 ( Kim Su-yŏng Literature Prize )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The spelling of the name preferred by the author according to the Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 나희덕 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 11, 2014. 
2. ↑ 네이버 인물 검색: 나희덕 Retrieved August 11, 2014 (Korean).
3. ↑ Author Database of LTI Korea: Ra Heeduk ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 13, 2014. 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ra is the family name here, Heeduk is the first name.