Joy Kogawa Writer

Joy Nozomi Kogawa, CM, OBC (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent.

Personal facts

Birth dateJune 06, 1935
Birth nameJoy Nozomi Nakayama
Birth place
Vancouver , Canada
Nationality
Canada

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Writer

award
Order of British Columbia
Order of Canada
Order of the Rising Sun
notable work
Obasan

Topical connections

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Adrienne ClarksonPolitician
Bev OdaPolitician
Bill BennettPresident
David SuzukiScientist
Ayaka WilsonArtist
Adele WisemanWriter
Kazuo NakamuraArtist

Joy Kogawa on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.avahoma.com
  2. http://www.canadianimmigrant.org/IMMIGRANTSTORIES/ImmigrantstoriesbyCanadianauthors.htm
  3. http://www.kogawahouse.com
  4. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/kogawa/index.htm
  5. http://www.reviewcanada.ca/hundredbooks.html#list
  6. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joy-kogawa