Michiko Ishimure

Michiko Ishimure (石牟礼道子, Ishimure Michiko, 11 March 1927 – 10 February 2018)[1] was a Japanese writer and activist.


Michiko Ishimure
石牟礼道子
Born11 March 1927
Died10 February 2018
NationalityJapanese
Known forwriter, activist, environmentalist, writing
Notable work
Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease, Story of the Sea of Camellias, Lake of Heaven

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

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