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Miri Yu was born on 22 June, 1968 in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan, is a Zainichi Korean writer (born 1968). Discover Miri Yu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?
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Playwright, novelist, essayist |
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55 years old |
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Cancer |
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22 June 1968 |
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22 June |
Birthplace |
Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan |
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Japan
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She is a member of famous Playwright with the age 55 years old group.
Miri Yu Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Takeharu Yanagi |
Miri Yu Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Miri Yu worth at the age of 55 years old? Miri Yu’s income source is mostly from being a successful Playwright. She is from Japan. We have estimated Miri Yu's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Miri Yu (ゆう みり) 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 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture and grew up in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture as one of four children born to Korean parents.
Her father, a son of Korean immigrants, worked at a pachinko gambling parlor.
Her mother, a refugee from the Korean War who fled to Japan from South Korea, worked as a hostess in a bar.
Yu's father was often abusive, and eventually her parents divorced when Yu was a child.
After dropping out of the Yokohama 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.
Her latest novel, The End of August, about a multi-generational Korean family living during the 1930s Japanese occupation, was published in 2023.
Yu has experienced racist backlash to her work because of her ethnic background, with some events at bookstores being canceled due to bomb threats.
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, Yu switched to writing novels.
Yu's first novel, a semiautobiographical 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.
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.
In 1999, she became pregnant with a married man and took refuge with a former lover suffering from cancer.
He took care of her during her pregnancy and died shortly after her child was born in 2000.
These events form the basis of her memoir Inochi.
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.
Her 2014 novel 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.
After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Yu began to travel frequently to the affected areas, and, from March 16, 2012, she hosted a weekly radio show called "Yu Miri no Futari to Hitori" (柳美里の二人と一人, "Yu Miri's Two People and One Person") on a temporary emergency broadcasting station called Minamisōma Hibari FM, based in Minamisōma, Fukushima.
Since April 2015, Yu 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.
In November 2020, Tokyo Ueno Station won the National Book Award for Translated Literature for a translation by translator Morgan Giles.
In 2021, she was working on a novel about migrant workers titled Yonomori Station after Yonomori Station on the Jōban Line.
On 2020, she was baptized at the Haramachi Catholic Church in Minamisōma and was given the name Teresa Benedicta, the religious name of Edith Stein.
She is a single mother and has one son.