Description: (South Korean Playwright, Novelist, and Essayist)
Miri Yu is a Zainichi Korean novelist, playwright, and essayist. Although she is a citizen of South Korea, Miri Yu writes in her native language, Japanese. Over the course of her career, Miri Yu has won several prestigious awards like the Noma literary prize and Akutagawa Prize. Many of her works, including Tokyo Ueno Station, have been translated into English.