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Jun 22, 1968 Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan 56 years old
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About Miri Yu
- Yu Miri (born June 22, 1968) is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist.
- Yu writes in Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of South Korea. Yu was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, to Korean parents.
- After dropping out of the Kanagawa Kyoritsu Gakuen high school, she joined the Tokyo Kid Brothers (??????????) theater troupe and worked as an actress and assistant director.
- In 1986, she formed a troupe called Seishun Gogetsuto (?????), and the first of several plays written by her was published in 1991.In the early 1990s, Yu switched to writing prose.
- Her novels include Furu Hausu (?????, "Full House", 1996), which won the Noma literary prize for best work by a new author; Kazoku Shinema (?????, "Family Cinema," 1997), which won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize; Gorudo Rasshu (????????, "Gold Rush" 1998), which was translated into English as Gold Rush (2002); and Hachi-gatsu no Hate (8????, "The End of August," 2004).
- She has published a dozen books of essays and memoirs, and she was an editor of and contributor to the literary quarterly "en-taxi ".
- Her best-selling memoir Inochi (?, "Life") was made into a movie, also titled Inochi.Yu's first novel, a semiautobiographical work titled Ishi ni Oyogu Sakana (?????, "The Fish Swimming in the Stone") published in the September 1994 issue of the literary journal Shincho, became the focus of a legal and ethical controversy.
- The model for one of the novel's main characters—and the person referred to indirectly by the title—objected to her depiction in the story.
- The publication of the novel in book form was blocked by court order, and some libraries restricted access to the magazine version.
- After a prolonged legal fight and widespread debate over the rights of authors, readers, and publishers versus individuals' rights to privacy, a revised version of the novel was published in 2002.Yu has experienced racist backlash to her work because of her ethnic background, with some events at bookstores being canceled due to bomb threats.After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami Yu began to travel to the affected areas often, and from March 16, 2012, she hosted a weekly radio show called "Yu Miri no Futari to Hitori" (?????????, "Yu Miri's Two People and One Person") on a temporary emergency broadcasting station called Minamisoma Hibari FM, based in Minamisoma, Fukushima.Her book "Tokyo Ueno Station" reflects her engagement with historical memory and margins by incorporating themes of a migrant laborer from northeastern Japan and his work on Olympic construction sites in Tokyo, as well as the March 11, 2011 disaster.Since April 2015, Yu has lived in Minamisoma, Fukushima.
- In 2018, she opened a bookstore called Full House and a theatre space called LaMaMa ODAKA at her home in Odaka District.She has one son.
