Michiko Ishimure
Japanese writer

Michiko Ishimure

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Japanese writer
Gender:
Female
Places:
Japan
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WriterNovelistPoet
Work field:
Literature
Birth:
11 March 1927(Kawaura, Japan)
Death:
10 February 2018(Kumamoto, Japan)
Star sign:
Pisces
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Michiko Ishimure (石牟礼道子, Ishimure Michiko, 11 March 1927 – 10 February 2018) was a Japanese writer and activist.

She won the 1973 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia's highest award, for publicizing writings about Minamata disease, which was extremely controversial at the time.

Works

  • Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease (1969) English translation 2003, Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. German translation, Livia Monnet: Paradies im Meer des Leidens: die Minamata-Krankheit im Werk der Schriftstellerin Ishimure Michiko (1988, Institut für Japanologie der Universität Wien)
  • Story of the Sea of Camellias (1976)
  • Lake of Heaven (2008)
  • Anima no tori (Birds of Spirit) (1999)
  • Noh play Shiranui (2004, trans. 2016)

(The author has more works in her native language)