Yumi Fuzuki (Japan, 1991)
Yumi Fuzuki 文月悠光 (b. 1991) is one of the youngest recipients of the Gendai Shi Techō Prize, which she was awarded while still a high school student in 2008, and also of the Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Modern Poetry Prize (2010). Fuzuki epitomizes the generation of millennial poets who work across media, seeing poetry as embedded as much in daily life as in other arts. Her first book, In this Suitable World, This Unsuitable Me (Tekisetsu-na sekai no tekisetsu-narazaru watashi, 2009), was published while she was still a high school student and was awarded the Nakahara Chūya Prize; the …
