Wayson Choy
1939
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2019
country of citizenship: Canada
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of British Columbia, Gladstone Secondary School
occupation: novelist, university teacher, writer
award received: Member of the Order of Canada
Wayson Choy (崔維新 Pinyin: Cuī Wéixīn; Jyutping: Ceoi1 Wai4-san1) (April 20, 1939 – April 28, 2019) was a Canadian novelist. Publishing two novels and two memoirs in his lifetime, he is considered one of the most important pioneers of Asian Canadian literature in Canada, and as an important figure in LGBT literature as one of Canada's first openly gay writers of colour to achieve widespread mainstream success. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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