Miri Yū

Miri Yū (Kanji: ; Hangul: 유미리) (June 22nd 1968 -) born in the Préfecture of Kanagawa is a Japanese novelist, of Korean origin.

Biography

Born Korean parents, it is resulting from a modest milieu. His/her father was repairing of Pachinko and his mother hostess in a bar. Its youth was very difficult: its parents quarreled often in Korean (language which it does not understand), and will end up divorcing. Being often victim of brimades at the school ( Ijime ), and after several suicide attempts, it takes refuge in the literature. It ends up leaving the college without diploma and joint a theater company, Tōkyō Kid Brothers (東京キッドブラザース) where it finds a direction with its life and a vocation: the writing to exorcize its demons. With its experiment of actress and assistant director, it founds her own troop, called Seishun Gogetsudō (青春五月堂) in 1986. She writes several plays, and for the first time in 1991 publishes some.

Starting from beginning of the year 90, she writes mainly novels, whose Family cinema (家族シネマ, 1997) which gained the most prestigious literary prize of the Japan: the Price Akutagawa.
In 1999, it falls pregnant from a married man and takes refuge near a former lover reached of cancer. This one deals with it during its pregnancy and dies shortly after the birth of the baby. These events form the base of a still unfinished autobiographical cycle, inaugurated with Inochi (命, life). Its first novel, a work in biographical matter, Poisson swimming among the stones (魚が見た夢), published in September 1994 in the literary review Shinchō, was in the center of a legal imbroglio. It would have based some of its characters on real people, of which that of Rifa inspired by one of his/her friends, while preserving truths names: that of course involved many complaints. The publication was thus suspended on order of the court, which raised in the Japanese literary community a debate on freedom of expression. Finally a revised version was again published in 2002. It is this version which is appeared in France.

Yū Miri lives in Tōkyō with his/her son and is editor association of a literary review “ in-taxi ”. Several of its works were adapted to the cinema and on television.

Partial bibliography

Poisson swimming among the stones ( Ishi nor Oyogu Sakana - 石に泳ぐ魚, 1994), Actes Sud
the Cradle at the edge of Water (水辺のゆりかご, 1996), Picquier
Plays of Family ( Furu Hausu - フルハウス, 1996), in Plays of Family , Picquier
Bean sprouts (もやし), in Plays of Family , Picquier
家族シネマ ( Kazoku Shinema , 1997) (Family Cinema)
Gold Rush ( Gōrudo Rasshu - ゴールドラッシュ, 1998), Picquier
Encyclopedia off my private talk
Inochi (命, 1999)
Drunk
To live
8 月の果て ( Hachi-gatsu No Hastens , 2004)

External bonds

Web site of Yu Miri (in Japanese): The Waltz of Miri

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