Wayson Choy (1939–2019)
Author of The Jade Peony
About the Author
Wayson Choy was born in Vancouver, Canada on April 20, 1939. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1962. After working in advertising, he became a professor at Humber College. He taught there for more than 25 years. His first novel, The Jade Peony, was published in 1995 and show more received a Trillium Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. His second novel, All That Matters, was published in 2004 and received the Trillium Prize. He also wrote two memoirs entitled Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood, which received the Edna Staebler Prize for Creative Non-Fiction, and Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying. In 2005, he was named to the Order of Canada. In 2015, he received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in B.C. He died after suffering cardiac arrest on April 27, 2019 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical name
- Choy, Wayson
- Legal name
- 崔維新
Choy, Wayson - Birthdate
- 1939-04-20
- Date of death
- 2019-04-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Place of death
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Places of residence
- Vancover, British Columbia, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Education
- University of British Columbia (Creative Writing)
- Occupations
- author
instructor (Humber College)
instructor (Humber School for Writers) - Organizations
- Cahoots Theatre Company of Toronto (President, 1999-2002)
- Awards and honors
- Trillium Book Award
Order of Canada (2005)
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- Works
- 4
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 1,090
- Popularity
- #23,567
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 35
- ISBNs
- 31
- Languages
- 1
- Favorited
- 6
I will say that I loved the characters Liang, Poh Poh, and Stepmother. I wish that I could sit down and drink tea and exchange stories with them for hours. Is it horribly sexist that I really only liked the female characters? Yeah, probably. LOL.