Lee Hoesung

Not to be confused with the Korean economist and IPCC Chair-elect Hoesung Lee.
In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
Lee Hoesung (李恢成)
Born (1935-02-26) February 26, 1935 (age 89)
Maoka, Karafuto, Empire of Japan (present-day Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russia)
OccupationNovelist
Notable worksHyakunen no tabibitotachi (百年の旅人たち; Travellers of a Hundred Years)
Lee Hoesung
Korean name
Hangul이회성
Hanja李恢成
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationI Hoeseong
McCune–ReischauerI Hoesŏng

Lee Hoesung[1] (Korean: 이회성; born February 26, 1935) is a Zainichi Korean novelist in Japan. He writes under the pen name Ri Kaisei, the Japanese reading of his Korean name. In 1972, he became the first ethnic Korean to win the Akutagawa Prize for his story "The Woman Who Fulled Clothes" (Kinuta wo utsu onna). Other representative works of his include Mihatenu Yume (見果てぬ夢; Unfulfilled Dream) and Hyakunen no tabibitotachi (百年の旅人たち; Travellers of a Hundred Years).[2]

  1. ^ Fukumoto, Yumiko (Winter 1998). "Titles Introduced in Japanese Book News Published in Other Languages 1991–98" (PDF). Japanese Book News. The Japan Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2004.
  2. ^ Ryang, Sonia (2002-05-01). "Dead-End in a Korean Ghetto: Reading a Complex Identity in Gen Getsu's Akutagawa-Winning Novel Where the Shadows Reside". Japanese Studies. 22 (1). Routledge: 5–18. doi:10.1080/103713902201436714. S2CID 143776148.