Wayson Choy

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Wayson Choy , CM (born April 20, 1939 in Vancouver - † April 28, 2019 ) was a Canadian writer .

Childhood and youth

Choy grew up in Vancouver's Chinatown , where he was raised by his adoptive parents and the local Chinese community. His father was a cook on a ship on the Canadian Pacific Steamship Line and was therefore rarely in Vancouver. He graduated from Gladstone Secondary School before becoming the first Chinese-born Canadian to study creative writing at the University of British Columbia (UBC) under the direction of Earle Birney in the late 1950s .

Career

Since 1962 Choy lived in Toronto , where he taught at Humber College from 1967 to 2004 and then taught at the Humber School of Writers .

Although Choy's early short stories were successful, he did not return to writing until 1977, when he again took the creative writing courses at UBC. The short story The Jade Peony , written during this period, was published as a novel in 1995 after some extensions. It's about an immigrant family who lived in Vancouver during World War II . The story is told from the perspective of the family's three children, who are looking for their identity as Canadians of Chinese origin in the area of ​​tension between Chinese tradition and Canadian society.

The Jade Peony won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 1996 and the Trillium Book Award in 2004, and was selected as one of only five books for Canada Reads by CBC in 2010 .

In 1999 he published his childhood memories as the paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood , which won the Edna Staebler Award in 2000 and was nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Awards .

In 2004, Choy published the novel All That Matters , which was nominated for the Giller Prize that same year . In 2005, Choy was inducted into the Order of Canada .

Works

Novels

  • The Jade Peony , 1995
  • All That Matters , 2004

Autobiographical works

  • Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood , 1999
  • Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying , 2009

literature

  • Tara Lee: Reproducing dominant national paradigms in Wayson Choy's "The Jade Peony" and Anita Rau Badami 's "Tamarind Mem". in: Marie Carrière, Catherine Khordoc Eds .: Migrance comparée - Comparing Migration: Les Littératures du Canada et du Québec - The Literatures of Canada and Québec. Series: Littératures de langue française, 5. Peter Lang, Bern 2008 ISSN  1661-3848 pp. 75 - 90

Web links

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  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ a b c Wayson Choy ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
  3. ^ A Special Tribute Evening to Wayson Choy - Sunday October 14th , article in the UBC Chinese Canadian Stories Project , October 9, 2012, accessed March 29, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Wayson Choy on the Humber School of Creative & Performing Arts website, accessed March 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Choy, Wayson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wéixīn, Cuī (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2019