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Wayson Choy (崔維新 Pinyin: Cuī Wéixīn ; Jyutping: Ceoi1 Wai4-san1) (born April 20, 1939) is a Vancouver-born Canadian writer of Chinese ancestry who spent his childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown. He is the author of the novel The Jade Peony (1995) which won the Trillium Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. He likewise wrote a memoir Paper Shadows: the Chinatown Childhood (1999), which won the Edna Staebler Creative Non-Fiction Award & was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Choy attended a University of British Columbia, where he exposed creative writing. Moving to Toronto inside 1962, Choy taught at Toronto's Humber College and the Humber School for Writers from either 1967 to 2004. He was president of Cahoots Theatre Company of Toronto from either 1999 to 2002. His newly novel, Everthing That Matters, was published within 2004. Around 2005, he was known as the member of the Order of Canada.
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Choy, Baby Jesse Helmer's review of Wayson Choy's lecture at St. Jerome's University. A Charm Against the Millennium Wayson Choy shares his thoughts on the millennium. eG Features: Wayson Choy The author talks about his book, "Paper Shadows". |
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