Yū Miri (Author of Tokyo Ueno Station)

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Yū Miri

Born

in Yokohama, Japan

June 22, 1968

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Associated Names:
* Yū Miri (English)
* 柳美里 (Japanese, Chinese)
* ??? (Korean)

is a?Zainichi Korean?playwright,?novelist, and?essayist. Yu writes in?Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of?South Korea.

Yū 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?(東京キッドブラザース) theater troupe and worked as an actress and assistant director. In 1986, she formed a troupe called?Seishun Gogetsutō?(青春五月党), and the first of several plays written by her was published in 1991.

In the early 1990s, Yū switched to writing prose. Her novels include?Furu Hausu?(フルハウス, "Full House", 1996), which won the Noma?literary prize?for best work by a n Associated Names:
* Yū Miri (English)
* 柳美里 (Japanese, Chinese)
* ??? (Korean)

is a?Zainichi Korean?playwright,?novelist, and?essayist. Yu writes in?Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of?South Korea.

Yū 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?(東京キッドブラザース) theater troupe and worked as an actress and assistant director. In 1986, she formed a troupe called?Seishun Gogetsutō?(青春五月党), and the first of several plays written by her was published in 1991.

In the early 1990s, Yū switched to writing prose. Her novels include?Furu Hausu?(フルハウス, "Full House", 1996), which won the Noma?literary prize?for best work by a new author;?Kazoku Shinema?(家族シネマ, "Family Cinema," 1997), which won the prestigious?Akutagawa Prize;?Gōrudo Rasshu?(ゴールドラッシュ, "Gold Rush" 1998), which was translated into English as?Gold Rush?(2002); and?Hachi-gatsu no Hate?(8月の果て, "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?(命, "Life") was made into a movie, also titled?Inochi.

Yū's first novel, a semi-autobiographical work titled?Ishi ni Oyogu Sakana?(石に泳ぐ魚, "The Fish Swimming in the Stone") published in the September 1994 issue of the?literary journal?Shinchō, 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.

Yū 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 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?Yū began to travel to the affected areas often, and from March 16, 2012, she hosted a weekly radio show called "Yū Miri no Futari to Hitori" (柳美里の二人と一人, "Yū Miri's Two People and One Person") on a temporary emergency broadcasting station called Minamisōma Hibari FM, based in?Minamisōma,?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, Yū has lived in?Minamisōma, Fukushima. In 2018, she opened a bookstore called Full House and a theatre space called LaMaMa ODAKA at her home in Odaka District
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	Tokyo Ueno Station by Yū Miri, Morgan Giles (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Translator) 3.45 avg rating — 27,791 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of August by Yū Miri, Morgan Giles (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gold Rush by Yū Miri, Stephen Snyder (Translator) 3.39 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il paese dei suicidi by Yū Miri, Laura Solimando (Editor) 2.91 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scene di famiglia by Yū Miri, Michela Morresi (Translator) 3.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeux de famille by Yū Miri, Anna Guerineau (Translator), Tadahiro Oku (Translator) 2.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ルージュ by Yū Miri, 柳美里 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dopo la Pioggia e i Sogni 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ねこのおうち by Yū Miri, 柳美里, ??? 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poissons nageant contre les pierres 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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