Miri Yu

Hangeul	유미리
Hanja	柳 美 里
Revised Romanization	Yu Mi-ri
McCune- Reischauer	Yu Mi-ri
See also : Korean name

Miri Yū ( Japanese 柳 美 里 , Yū Miri , Korean Hangeul : 유미리 , Yu Mi-ri ; born June 22, 1968 in Tsuchiura , Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer of Korean descent who writes prose and plays in Japanese. Although her mother tongue is Japanese, she is a South Korean citizen. She belongs to the Korean minority in Japan , the Zainichi.

Life

Yū was born to Korean parents in Tsuchiura, Japan. At the age of four she moved with her parents to Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture . She attended a private high school in Yokohama and joined in 1984 as the youngest member of the musical and theater group Tokyo Kid Brothers ( 東京 キ ッ ド ブ ラ ザ ー ス , Tōkyō Kiddo Burazāsu ) under the direction of Higashi Yutaka . In 1987 she founded her own theater group under the name Seishun Gogatsutō ( 青春 五月 党 ) and a short time later, in 1991, she published her first own plays.

While her first plays were being published, Yū switched to prose in the early 1990s. She won the Noma Literature Prize with Full House ( フ ル ハ ウ ス , Furu Hausu ) and the renowned Akutagawa Prize with Family Cinema ( 家族 シ ネ マ , Kazoku Shinema ) .

Yū currently lives in Kamakura with her son .

Works

prose

• 1994 Ishi ni oyogu sakana ( 石 に 泳 ぐ 魚 ), revised book version 2002
• 1996 Full House ( フ ル ハ ウ ス , Furu Hausu )
• 1997 Kazoku Cinema ( 家族 シ ネ マ , Kazoku Shinema )
• 1997 Mizube no yurikago ( 水 辺 の ゆ り か ご )
• 1997 Tail ( タ イ ル , Tairu )
• 1998 Gold Rush ( ゴ ー ル ド ラ ッ シ ュ , Gōrudo rasshu )
  • Roman, translated by Kristina Iwata-Weick, bebra Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-86124-911-5
• 2000 Otoko ( 男 )
• 2000 Inochi ( 命 )
• 2001 Rouge ( ル ー ジ ュ , Rūju )
• 2002 Koe ( 声 )
• 2004 Hachigatsu no hate ( 8 月 の 果 て )
• 2005 Ame to yume no ato ni ( 雨 と 夢 の あ と に )
• 2008 Kuro ( 黒 )
• 2004 On Air ( オ ン エ ア , On ea )

Stage plays

• 1991 Seibutsuga ( 静物 画 )
• 1993 Himawari no kan ( 向日葵 の 柩 )
• 1994 Green Bench
• 1996 Sakana no matsuri ( 魚 の 祭 )
• 1991 Seibutsuga ( 静物 画 )

literature

• Kristina Weick called: The Deemphasis of Ethnicity. Images of Koreanness in the Works of the Japanese-Korean Author Yû Miri . In: Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies . “Images of Asia in Japanese Mass Media, Popular Culture and Literature”, 2001 ( PDF ).

Web links

• La Valse de Miri - Official website of Yū Miri (Japanese)
• Miri Yû's blog (Japanese)
• Translations of Yū Miri's works
• Yū Miri at Bebra Verlag Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kotobank