'''Miri Yu''' (born Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of South Korea.

Yu was born in Korean parents. After dropping out of the ''Kanagawa Kyoritsu Gakuen'' high school, she joined the ''Tokyo Kid Brothers'' (東京キッドブラザース) theater troupe and worked as an actress and assistant director. In 1986, she formed a troupe called ''Seishun Gogetsutō'' (青春五月党), and the first of several plays written by her was published in 1991.

In the early 1990s, Yu switched to writing prose. Her novels include ''Furu Hausu'' (フルハウス, "Full House", 1996), which won the Noma literary prize for best work by a new author; ''Kazoku Shinema'' (家族シネマ, "Family Cinema," 1997), which won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize; ''Gōrudo Rasshu'' (ゴールドラッシュ, "Gold Rush" 1998), which was translated into English as ''Gold Rush'' (2002); and ''Hachi-gatsu no Hate'' (8月の果て, "The End of August," 2004). She has published a dozen books of essays and memoirs, and she is an editor of and contributor to the literary quarterly " en-taxi ". Her best-selling memoir ''Inochi'' (命, "Life") was made into a movie, also titled ''Inochi''.

Yu's first novel, a semiautobiographical work titled ''Ishi ni Oyogu Sakana'' (石に泳ぐ魚, "The Fish Swimming in the Stone") published in the September 1994 issue of the Shinchō, became the focus of a legal and ethical controversy. The model for one of the novel's main characters&mdash;and the person referred to indirectly by the title&mdash;objected to her depiction in the story. The publication of the novel in book form was blocked by court order, and some libraries restricted access to the magazine version. After a prolonged legal fight and widespread debate over the rights of authors, readers, and publishers versus individuals' rights to privacy, a revised version of the novel was published in 2002.

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|LuogoNascita = Yokohama
|GiornoMeseNascita = 22 giugno
|AnnoNascita = 1968
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|Attività = scrittrice
|Nazionalità = sudcoreana
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Autrice di romanzi e di saggi, scrive le sue opere in giapponese, la sua lingua madre.

La Y&#363; è nata da genitori coreani a Yokohama, nella prefettura di Kanagawa, in Giappone; dopo aver abbandonato gli studi liceali è entrata nell'associazione teatrale dei Tokyo Kid Brothers (&#26481;&#20140;&#12461;&#12483;&#12489;&#12502;&#12521;&#12470;&#12540;&#12473;), dove ha lavorato come attrice e assistente. Nel 1986 ha fondato la compagnia Seishun Gogetsud&#333; (&#38738;&#26149;&#20116;&#26376;&#22530;); la sua prima commedia risale al 1991.

All'inizio degli anni 1990 risalgono i primi esperimenti nel campo della prosa; fra i suoi romanzi principali si ricordano ''Furu Hausu'' (&#12501;&#12523;&#12495;&#12454;&#12473;, "Casa piena", 1996); ''Kazoku Shinema'' (&#23478;&#26063;&#12471;&#12493;&#12510;, pubblicato in Italia come "Scene di famiglia", 1997), che le valse il prestigioso Premio Akutagawa; ''G&#333;rudo Rasshu'' (&#12468;&#12540;&#12523;&#12489;&#12521;&#12483;&#12471;&#12517;, pubblicato in Italia come "Oro rapace", 1998); ''Hachi-gatsu no Hate'' (8&#26376;&#12398;&#26524;&#12390;, "La fine di agosto", 2004).

La Y&#363; si è inoltre resa autrice di una dozzina di saggi e memorie; dal suo libro di memorie ''Inochi'' (&#21629;, "Vita") è stato tratto un film, peraltro intitolato proprio ''Inochi''.