Yang Sok-il
Yang Sok-il (or Yang Sokil, Yang Sogil, Yang Seok-il, 13 August 1936 – 29 June 2024) was a writer in Japanese of Korean nationality. He was born in Osaka.
Yang Sok-il
- Born
- Yang Sok-il was born on 13 August 1936. · Osaka.
- Died
- Yang Sok-il died on 29 June 2024. · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- South Korea.
- Occupation
- novelist and writer.
- Honours
- Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.
- Languages
- Japanese and Korean.
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Yang Sok-il (or Yang Sokil, Yang Sogil, Yang Seok-il, 13 August 1936 – 29 June 2024) was a writer in Japanese of Korean nationality. He was born in Osaka.
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Yang Sok-il (1936–2024) was a South Korean novelist and writer. Born in Osaka, the novelist died in Tokyo.
Languages used include Japanese and Korean. Yang Sok-il received Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.
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• Hangul — %양석일 • Hanja — 梁石日 • Text — Japanese name: Yanagawa Masao
Life and works
Life and works
Yang first supported himself via various odd jobs, an experience that led to books based on the experience of taxi driving published in the 1980s and filmed as All Under the Moon (Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru Yōichi Sai). A large number of books followed. Yang's semi-autobiographical novel, Chi to Hone (Blood and Bones), was adapted as a theatrical film, directed by Yoichi Sai, starring Takeshi Kitano as Kim Shun-Pei, Kyōka Suzuki as Kim's wife, Joe Odagiri as son-in-law and Hirofumi Arai as eldest son and narrator. The film opened in Japan on 6 November 2004. An English version of the book translated by Adhy Kim was also published in 2022. Yang died on 29 June 2024, at the age of 87.
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The December 2000 issue of Yurīka / Eureka is devoted to Yang.
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Yang Sok-il is recorded with the occupation novelist. Recorded as a citizen of South Korea. Recorded with the occupation writer.
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1936
Yang Sok-il was born on 13 August 1936.
2024
Yang Sok-il died on 29 June 2024.
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Yang Sok-il was born in Osaka.
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Yang Sok-il died in Tokyo.
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