Wayson Choy
Wayson Choy | |
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| Born | 1939 (age 84–85) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | writer |
Wayson Choy, CM (崔維新 Pinyin: Cuī Wéixīn ; Jyutping: Ceoi1 Wai4-san1) (born April 20, 1939) is a Canadian writer.
Early life
Choy was born in Vancouver in 1939. A Chinese Canadian, he spent his childhood in the city's Chinatown. Choy graduated from Gladstone Secondary School and went on to attend the University of British Columbia, where he studied creative writing.
Career
Choy moved to Toronto in 1962, and taught at Humber College from 1967 to 2004. He continues to teach at the Humber School for Writers. He was president of Cahoots Theatre Company of Toronto from 1999 to 2002.
Choy is the author of the novel The Jade Peony (1995) which won the Trillium Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. In 2010, it was selected as one of five books for the CBC's annual Canada Reads competition.
His memoir Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood (1999) won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction[1] and was nominated for a Governor General's Award.
Choy's latest novel, All That Matters, was published in 2004 and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2005, he was named a member of the Order of Canada.[2]
Three recently published monographs have featured chapters on Choy's publications up to Not Yet; these are: John Z. Ming Chen's The Influence of Daoism on Asian-Canadian Writers (Mellen, 2008), John Z. Ming Chen and Wei Li's A Study of Canadian Social Realist Literature: Neo-Marxist, Confucian, and Daoist Approaches (Inner Mongolia University Press, 2011), John Z. Ming Chen and Yuhua Ji's Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics (Springer, 2015).
Bibliography
Novels
- The Jade Peony — 1995
- All That Matters — 2004
Memoirs
- Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood — 1999
- Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying — 2009 ISBN 978-0-385-66310-6
References
- ^ Wilfrid Laurier University 2000: Wayson Choy, (retrieved 11/17/2012)
- ^ http://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=9638
External links
- The Canadian Encyclopedia – Choy, Wayson
- Interview by asiancanadian.net
- Quill & Quire Author Profile
- Immigrant Stories by Canadian Authors
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- Canadian male novelists
- Canadian memoirists
- Canadian people of Chinese descent
- Gay writers
- Humber College faculty
- LGBT writers from Canada
- Members of the Order of Canada
- Writers from Vancouver
- University of British Columbia alumni
- Writers from Toronto
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- Harbourfront Festival Prize winners
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- LGBT memoirists
- LGBT novelists