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Lee Hoesung
Korean novelist
dead
- born
- 1935
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 89
- known for
- novelist, writer
1935 – 2025
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who lee hoesung is
Lee Hoesung was a Japanese Zainichi Korean novelist. He wrote 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". Other representative works of his include Mihatenu Yume and Hyakunen no tabibitotachi.
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