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{{Short description|Japanese-Korean novelist (1955–1992)}}
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| name               = Lee Yangji
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| birth_name         = 이양지
| birth_date         = March 15, 1955
| birth_place        = [[Nishikatsura]], Yamanashi, Japan
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1992|5|22|1955|3|15}}
| death_place        = 
| education          = 
| occupation         = Writer, novelist
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{{Infobox Korean name|hangul=이양지|hanja=李良枝|rr=I Yangji|mr=I Yangji|text=Also referred to in Japanese as:<BR/>イ・ヤンジ (''I Yanji'')}}
'''Yangji Lee''' (March 15, 1955 – May 22, 1992) was a [[Koreans in Japan|Japanese-Korean]] novelist. She won the [[Akutagawa Prize]] for her work ''Yuhi'', becoming the second [[Zainichi Korean]] to win the prize.

== Biography ==
Lee was born in [[Nishikatsura]], [[Yamanashi Prefecture|Yamanashi]], Japan. She was a second generation Japanese-Korean. When she was in grade school, her parents acquired Japanese citizenship and her nationality became Japanese at that time. Upon naturalization, she adopted the name {{nihongo|'''Tanaka Yoshie'''|田中 淑枝}}.{{efn|''Yoshie'' is the Japanized pronunciation of {{lang|ja|良枝}}, the kanji spelling of {{lang|ko|양지}}.}}

In 1982, while studying at [[Seoul National University]], Lee published her work ''Nabi Taryong'' in the literary magazine ''Gunzou'' and her career as a writer began. In 1988, her work ''Yuhi'' won the 100th [[Akutagawa Prize]], making her the second Zainichi Korean to receive the prize (the first being [[Lee Hoesung]]). While writing the novel ''Ishi no Koe'', she contracted acute [[myocarditis]] and soon died.

== Bibliography ==
* Grieving Butterflies, 1982 (jap. ナビ・タリョン)
* Woman Diver, 1983 (jap. かずきめ)
* The Other Side of a Shadow Picture, 1985 (jap. 影絵の向こう)
* The Auburn Afternoon, 1985 (jap. 鳶色の午後)
* Time Ticking, 1985 (jap. 刻)
* Yuhi (jap. 由熙, ユヒ, kor. 유희)
* The Voice of Stones, 1992 (jap. 石の声)
* The Collection of Lee Yangji, 1993 (jap. 李良枝全集)

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite web|title=ソウルの異邦人、その周辺一李艮枝「由煕」をめぐって (Portrait of a Foreigner's World in Seoul: Yuhi by Yi Yangji) |author=SHIN Eunju (申銀珠) |publisher=Niigata University of International and Information Studies |url=http://www.nuis.ac.jp/ic/library/kiyou/7_shin.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616153022/http://www.nuis.ac.jp/ic/library/kiyou/7_shin.pdf |archivedate=2007-06-16 }}

==External links==
* [http://www.jlpp.go.jp/en/works/04_21.html Synopsis of ''Yuhi''] at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) {{in lang|en}}

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[[Category:1955 births]]
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[[Category:Japanese expatriates in South Korea]]
[[Category:Japanese-language writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Japanese novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century Japanese women writers]]
[[Category:Japanese people of Korean descent]]
[[Category:Writers from Yamanashi Prefecture]]
[[Category:Seoul National University alumni]]
[[Category:Akutagawa Prize winners]]
[[Category:Zainichi Korean writers]]
[[Category:Deaths from myocarditis]]

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