# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-hoesung
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:59:40.595Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-hoesung"
name: "Lee Hoesung"
slug: "lee-hoesung"
description: "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."
tagline: "Korean novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%EC%9D%B4%ED%9A%8C%EC%84%B1_%EC%9E%91%EA%B0%80.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-02-26"
deathDate: "2025-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             0.3546099290780143
  historical:           6.764869333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%A5%D1%91%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Ли Хёсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "لي هوسونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri_Kaisei"
    title: "Ri Kaisei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hoesung"
    title: "Lee Hoesung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feson_I"
    title: "Feson I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%81%A2%E6%88%90"
    title: "李恢成"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%ED%9A%8C%EC%84%B1_(%EC%86%8C%EC%84%A4%EA%B0%80)"
    title: "이회성 (소설가)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q904489"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump