# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theresa-hak-kyung-cha
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:11:20.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theresa-hak-kyung-cha"
name: "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha"
slug: "theresa-hak-kyung-cha"
description: "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha  was an American novelist, producer, director, and artist of South Korean origin, best known for her 1982 novel, Dictée. Considered an avant-garde artist, Cha was fluent in Korean, English, and French. The main body of Cha's work is \"looking for the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue.\" Cha's practice experiments with language through repetition, manipulation, reduction, and isolation, exploring the ways in which language marks one's identity, in unstable and multiple expressions. Cha's interdisciplinary background was clearly evident in Dictée, which experiments with juxtaposition and hypertext of both print and visual media. Cha's Dictée is frequently taught in contemporary literature classes including women's literature."
tagline: "Korean-American author and artist (1951–1982)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Theresa_Hak_Kyung_Cha_%28Barnes%2C_1980%29.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-03-04"
deathDate: "1982-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.947234666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ثيريسا هاك كيونج تشا"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Hak_Kyung_Cha"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Hak_Kyung_Cha"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Hak_Kyung_Cha"
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    title: "テレサ・ハッキョン・チャ"
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    title: "ტერეზა ჰაკ კიუნგ ჩა"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump