Joy Kogawa
Autor/a de Obasan
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Joy Kogawa
Gently to Nagasaki: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, An Exploration Both Communal and Intensely Personal (2016) 11 exemplars
Obasan[OBASAN][Paperback] 1 exemplars
The Splintered Moon 1 exemplars
Kogawa, Joy (About) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (1993) — Col·laborador — 158 exemplars
Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets (1983) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (1995) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Kogawa, Joy
- Nom oficial
- Kogawa, Joy Nozomi
- Data de naixement
- 1935-06-06
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Canada
- Lloc de naixement
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Llocs de residència
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coaldale, Alberta, Canada - Professions
- poet
novelist - Premis i honors
- Order of British Columbia (2006)
Order of Canada (1986)
Order of the Rising Sun (2010)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
THE WAR ROOM (1)
AP Lit (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 17
- També de
- 9
- Membres
- 1,809
- Popularitat
- #14,221
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 36
- ISBN
- 55
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 1