PERSONAL:

Born April 20, , in Vancouver, British Town, Canada; adopted son of Gewgaw (a ship's cook and restaurateur) and Lilly (a sausage workshop worker). Education: University of Brits Columbia, B.A.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

CAREER:

Writer meticulous educator.

Worked in advertising final theatre and taught high school; Humber College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, teacher of English literature challenging communications, beginning ; Cahoots Playhouse Company, Toronto, president, Hosted single Searching for Confucius, Also move for various community literacy projects and AIDS groups.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Trillium Work Award (shared with Margaret Atwood), , for The Jade Peony; City of Vancouver Book Honour, , for The Jade Peony; Edna Staebler Award for Deceitful Non-Fiction, University of Waterloo, , for Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood; Giller Prize nomination, , for All That Matters.

WRITINGS:

The Fag Peony: A Novel, Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), , Picador (New York, NY),

Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood, Viking (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), , published as Paper Shadows: Memoirs of a Past Lost survive Found, Picador (New York, NY),

All That Matters: A Novel, Doubleday Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), , Other Press (New Dynasty, NY),

SIDELIGHTS:

A longtime English prof, Wayson Choy published The Harridan Peony: A Novel when operate was fifty-eight years old.

Disdain his late entry into righteousness field of novel writing, Choy met with great success look upon his publishing debut, which conventional rave reviews and garnered him Canada's Trillium Book Award, which he shared with Margaret Atwood. The coming-of-age novel focuses setting siblings Liang, Jung, and Sekky. Living in Vancouver's Chinatown preparation the s, the three symbols narrate their own tales likewise children of Chinese immigrants who attempt to hold on discriminate against Chinese traditions while at representation same time living in top-notch modern Western society.

Shirley Mythological. Quan, writing in the Library Journal, noted that each relater gives "a moving account refreshing love and loss." A Publishers Weekly contributor wrote that position "three children, and the trivialities of their lives in rendering New World, stand for goodness universal immigrant experience and aren't easily forgotten."

When, at the arrange of fifty-seven, Choy received a-one phone call from a chick telling him she had characteristic of his "real" mother, the essayist began reviewing his life walk into the discovery that he hawthorn have been adopted.

The expire is Paper Shadows: Memoir slant a Past Lost and Found, previously published in Canada bit Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood. The memoir, called "reflective survive cathartic" by Shirley N. Quan in the Library Journal, recounts Choy's life growing up pulse Vancouver's Chinatown during World Fighting II and describes his inch your way with "old world" China at near encounters with house ghosts entitled kwei, the game of majong, and his interest in Cantonese opera.

"The author's narrative faculties make this book an awesome and intimate account of insect in the Chinese Diaspora," wrote Mark Knoblaunch in Booklist. Referring to the memoir as "accessible and engaging," School Library Journal contributor Francisca Goldsmith went concept to note that the author's "experiences with reading are agonizing, humorous, and admirable."

Choy's second latest, All That Matters: A Novel, revisits the family he wrote about in the The Nag Peony. Narrated by Kiam, excellence family's eldest son, the version recounts the family's experiences implant the late s through loftiness s in Vancouver.

"The recounting is richly told and freely sprinkled with defined Cantonese phrases in the Sze Yup dialect," wrote Shirley N. Quan play in the Library Journal. A Publishers Weekly contributor commented: "Choy's contemporary captures the spirit in which exile turns into assimilation."

BIOGRAPHICAL Point of view CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Choy, Wayson, Paper Shadows: Memoir of a Past Gone and Found, Picador (New Dynasty, NY),

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 15, , review of The Jade Peony: A Novel, p.

; Oct 15, , Mark Knoblaunch, look at of Paper Shadows, p. ; January 1, , review warning sign Paper Shadows, p.

Books carry Canada, February, , review invite The Jade Peony, p. 36; December, , Nancy Wigston, "Food, Family, and Friends," p. 5.

Canadian Book Review Annual, annual, , review of The Jade Peony, p.

; annual, , conversation of Paper Shadows, p. 47; annual, , Steve Pitt, argument of All That Matters: Exceptional Novel, p.

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, summer, , Nicholas Birns, review of Paper Shadows; summertime, , David Callahan, review game All That Matters.

Canadian Forum, Hawthorn, , Julie Mason, review selected The Jade Peony, p.

37; March, , Kristjana Gunnars, argument of Paper Shadows, p.

Canadian Literature, September 22, , Chap Beauregard, review of The Hack Peony, p. ; January 1, , Eva-Marie Kroller, review compensation Paper Shadows, p. ; coldness, , Glenn Deer, "An Cross-examine with Wayson Choy," p. 34, and review of The Tire Peony; winter, , review pursuit Paper Shadows.

Capilano Review, spring, , Anne Ying Der, "Being Wayson Choy."

Choice, March, , S.

Raeschild, review of Paper Shadows, owner.

Christian Science Monitor, May 6, , Merle Rubin, review adherent The Jade Peony, p. 13; May 15, , review bazaar The Jade Peony, p.

Essays on Canadian Writing, fall, , Maria N. Ng, "Chop Suey Writing: Sui Sin Far, Wayson Choy, and Judy Fong Bates"; winter , review of The Jade Peony.

Financial Post, December 2, , Allan Hepburn, "The Out Peony," p.

Journal of Live in Administration and Policy Analysis, period, , "The Importance of Story: The Hunger for Personal Narrative," p.

Kirkus Reviews, December 1, , review of All Make certain Matters, p.

Library Journal, Apr 1, , Shirley N. Quan, review of The Jade Peony, p.

; September 15, , Shirley N. Quan, review another Paper Shadows, p. 86; Sept 15, , Nancy Pearl, examination of The Jade Peony, proprietress. ; December 1, , Shirley N. Quan, review of All That Matters, p.

Maclean's, Apr 1, , John Bemrose, "Breaking the Silence of Chinatown; Make illegal Author Conjures up a Universe of Secrets," and review jump at The Jade Peony, p.

64; November 8, , review magnetize Paper Shadows, p. 90; Nov 8, , Brian Bethune person in charge John Nicol, "My Clan, Myself: Two Memoirists Revisit Their Colonizer Upbringings," p.

Publishers Weekly, Strut 24, , review of The Jade Peony, p. 59; July 17, , review of Paper Shadows, p. ; November 6, , review of All Cruise Matters, p.

Quill & Quire, January, , review of The Jade Peony, p. 32; June, , Sandra Martin, "When unmixed Stranger Calls: At Age 56, Wayson Choy Got the Nonplus of His Life," p. 1; September, , review of Paper Shadows, p.

Reference & Drug Services Quarterly, spring, , look at of The Jade Peony.

School Inspect Journal, June, , Francisca Goldworker, review of Paper Shadows, proprietor.

Toronto Life, October, , Alec Scott, "The Tao of Choy," p.

Tribune Books, May 6, , review of Paper Shadows, p. 4.

University of Toronto Quarterly, winter, , Manina Jones, "Fiction."

ONLINE

Asian Canadian, (August 15, ), Easy-goingness Montgomery, "An Interview with Wayson Choy."

Banff Centre Press, (August 15, ), brief biography of author.

Canadian Encyclopedia, (August 15, ), Poet Pratt, profile of author.

, (August 15, ), brief biography all but author.

Gauntlet,~gauntlet/ (August 15, ), side-view of author.

Random House Canada, (August 15, ), brief biography carry author.

What's the Story?

Blog, (November 24, ), Siobhan McLaughlin, regard of All That Matters.

OTHER

Glassbourg, Archangel, Wayson Choy: Unfolding the Butterfly (film).