Miri Yu
Miri Yū (Japanese柳 美 里, Yū Miri, kor Hangeul. 유미리, Yu Mi -ri; born June 22, 1968 in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture) is a Japanese novelist of Korean descent, prose and plays writes in Japanese. Although Japanese is their native language, it has the South Korean citizenship. It comes within 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 entered 1984 as the youngest member of the musical group and theatrical group Tokyo Kid Brothers (東京 キッド ブラザース, Tōkyō Kiddo Burazāsu ) headed by Yutaka Higashi at. In 1987 she founded her own theater group called Seishun Gogatsutō (青春 五月 党) and a short time later, in 1991 she published her first own songs.
During its first stage plays have been published, Yū changed at the beginning of the 90s to the prose. She won with a Full House (フルハウス, Furu Hausu ) the Noma Literary Prize and Family Cinema (家族 シネマ, Kazoku Shinema ) the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.
Yū currently lives with her son in Kamakura.