Michiko Ishimure

Michiko Ishimure, 石牟礼道子, or Ishimure Michiko
Born 11 March 1927
Japan
Died 10 February 2018
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)

References

  1. ↑ "石牟礼道子さん死去　９０歳、水俣病告発「苦海浄土」".
  2. ↑ CITATION for Michiko Ishimure, Ramon Magsaysay Award; accessed 10 February 2018.
  • Michiko Ishumure (sic), unesco.org via archive.org; accessed 10 February 2018.
  • Michiko Ishimure on 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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