Michiko Ishimure
Michiko Ishimure | |
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| 石牟礼道子 | |
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| Born | 11 March 1927 Kawaura, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | 10 February 2018 Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Known for | writer, activist, environmentalist, writing |
| Notable work | Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease, Story of the Sea of Camellias, Lake of Heaven |
Michiko Ishimure (石牟礼道子, Ishimure Michiko, 11 March 1927 – 10 February 2018)[1] 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.[2]
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)[3]
(The author has more works in her native language)
References
- ^ "石牟礼道子さん死去 ９０歳、水俣病告発「苦海浄土」".
- ^ CITATION for Michiko Ishimure Archived 6 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Ramon Magsaysay Award. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ https://apjjf.org/2016/13/Thornber.html
External links
- Michiko Ishumure (sic), unesco.org via archive.org. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- Michiko Ishimure at IMDb
- Thornber, Karen (11 June 2012). "Environmental Ambiguity, Literature, and Ishimure Michiko 環境問題の曖昧さ、文学、石牟道子". The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 10 (24, no. 2).
- Thornber, Karen (1 July 2016). "Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism". The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 14 (13, no. 6).
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