Yanji I

Yanji I ( Japanese 李 良 枝 , Yangji Lee , Yoshie Tanaka ; I Yanji , 田中 淑 枝 , Tanaka Yoshie ; born March 15, 1955 , † May 22, 1992 ) was a Japanese writer.

I was the daughter of Korean immigrants in Japan . In 1964 the family received Japanese citizenship and the surname Tanaka, Yanji I's official Japanese name became Yoshie Tanaka. From 1980 she visited Korea several times and began - impressed by the Korean culture - to study literature at the Seoul National University in 1982 . During her studies, she wrote the autobiographical novel Nabi Taryong , which appeared in the literary magazine Gunzō and was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize . She received this in 1988 for the novel Yūhi . In 1992 she died of acute myocarditis at the age of thirty-seven .

Works

• Yuhi . Translated from the Japanese by Verena Nakamura-Methfessel. Abera 2013, ISBN 978-3-939876-01-4 .

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• Sonia Ryang: Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin. New edition. Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0-415-21999-X , pp. 120 ff.
• Yangji Lee: Yuhi and Other Stories. ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.2 MB). Japanese Literature Publishing Project

Web links

• Reading the Work of Yi Yang-ji. Master thesis. (engl.)