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Darrell H.Y. Lum (born 1950) is a fiction writer, playwright, teacher, and editor from Hawaiʻi, who co-founded Bamboo Ridge Press with Eric Chock.[1]

Early life and education

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Lum was born in 1950 in Honolulu.[2] Lum attended McKinley High School, and later the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he earned his bachelor's in 1972, followed by an M.A. in Educational Communications in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Educational Foundations in 1997.[3] Lum is known for his writings in Hawaiʻi Creole English, or Hawaiian Pidgin.[4]

Career

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In 1991, Lum received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature.[5] Prior to that, he received a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989.[6] Lum's Pass On, No Pass Back! earned the Association for Asian American Studies National Book Award in 1992.[7] Darrell H.Y. Lum was also awarded the 1998 Hawaiʻi Book Publishers' Association Award for Excellence in Literature and another Association for Asian American Studies award in 2009 for the Outstanding Service Award.[8] In 2001, Darrell H. Y. Lum, Joseph Stanton, and Estelle Enoki earned an honorable mention for the Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award for Excellence in Literature for their editing of "The Quietest Singing."[9] Lum, along with other well-known Hawaiʻi playwrights like Edward Sakamoto and Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl, have helped shape the landscape of Hawaiʻi's local literature and theatre, bringing national attention to the Hawaiʻi stage.[10] Many of Lum's writings have been turned into plays, or produced as plays for Kumu Kahua Theatre and Honolulu Theatre for Youth.[11] In addition to writing short stories and plays in Hawaiian Pidgin, Lum supports the use of Pidgin in education, speaking on a panel at Hawaiʻi's first “Get Pidgin?: Summit on Pidgin and Education” in 2017.[12] Lum continues to serve as editor with Bamboo Ridge Press.

Bibliography

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  • Sun: Short Stories & Drama (1980)
  • The Best of Bamboo Ridge (1986) (edited with Eric Chock)
  • Pake: Writings by Chinese in Hawaii (1989) (edited with Eric Chock)
  • Pass On, No Pass Back! (1990)
  • The Best of Honolulu Fiction (1999) (edited with Eric Chock)

References

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  1. ^ "Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features". archives.starbulletin.com. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  2. ^ Yellow light : the flowering of Asian American arts. Amy Ling. Philadelphia, PA. 1999. ISBN 1-56639-670-0. OCLC 39532640.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Huang, Guiyou (2006). The Columbia guide to Asian American literature since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-50103-X. OCLC 71342021.
  4. ^ The Facts on File companion to the American short story. Abby H. P. Werlock, Inc Facts on File. New York: Facts on File. 2000. ISBN 0-8160-3164-9. OCLC 41662595.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ "THE HAWAI'I LITERARY ARTS COUNCIL". www.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  6. ^ Huang, Guiyou (2006). The Columbia guide to Asian American literature since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-50103-X. OCLC 71342021.
  7. ^ Infant tongues : the voice of the child in literature. Elizabeth Goodenough, Mark A. Heberle, Naomi B. Sokoloff. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1994. ISBN 0-8143-2430-4. OCLC 30544773.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ^ Asian American literature : an encyclopedia for students. Keith Lawrence. Santa Barbara, California. 2021. ISBN 978-1-4408-7289-1. OCLC 1226076435.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ "More Ka Palapala Po'okela Winners". Honolulu Advertiser. Oct 20, 2001. ProQuest 414750812. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  10. ^ Mattos, Justina T. (2002). The Development of Hawai'i's Kumu Kahua Theatre and Its Core Repertory: The "Local" Plays of Sakamoto, Lum and Kneubuhl (Thesis thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa. hdl:10125/36863.
  11. ^ A Hawaiʻi anthology : a collection of works by recipients of the Hawaiʻi Award for Literature, 1974-1996. Joseph Stanton, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi: State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. 1997. ISBN 0-8248-1976-4. OCLC 37888807.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ "Educators: Pidgin Belongs In Hawaii Schools". Honolulu Civil Beat. 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
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