Joy Kogawa
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Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1935 and graduated from high school in Coaldale, Alberta where her family was sent after WWII. Kogawa was made a Member of the Order of Canada. From 1983 to 1985, she worked with the National Association of Japanese Canadians to help those näytä lisää Japanese who had lost their land and possesions under the War Measures Act in 1942. Kogawa went on to study education at the University of Alberta and taught elementary school in Coaldale for a year. She then studied music at the University of Toronto followed by studies at the Anglican Women's Training College and the University of Saskatchewan. Kogawa has won awards for her book Obasan, including the Books in Canada, First Novel Award, the Canadian Authors Association, Book of the Year Award, the Periodical Distributors of Canada, Best Paperback Fiction Award, the Before Columbus Foundation, and The American Book Award (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Gently to Nagasaki: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, An Exploration Both Communal and Intensely Personal (2016) 11 kappaletta
Obasan[OBASAN][Paperback] 1 kappale
The Splintered Moon 1 kappale
Kogawa, Joy (About) 1 kappale
Associated Works
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (1993) — Avustaja — 158 kappaletta
Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets (1983) — Avustaja — 28 kappaletta
Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (1995) — Avustaja — 27 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Kogawa, Joy
- Virallinen nimi
- Kogawa, Joy Nozomi
- Syntymäaika
- 1935-06-06
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Canada
- Syntymäpaikka
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Asuinpaikat
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coaldale, Alberta, Canada - Ammatit
- poet
novelist - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Order of British Columbia (2006)
Order of Canada (1986)
Order of the Rising Sun (2010)
Jäseniä
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THE WAR ROOM (1)
AP Lit (1)
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