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List Of Asian American Writers
This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. Their works are considered part of Asian American literature. A-D * Ai * Shaila Abdullah * Aria Aber * George Abraham * Jessica Abughattas * Dilruba Ahmed, poet * Maya Ajmera * Meena Alexander * Agha Shahid Ali * Kazim Ali * Noel Alumit * Mia Alvar * Hala Alyan * Ryka Aoki * Fatimah Asghar * Aziz Ansari * Gina Apostol * Gaiutra Bahadur * Shauna Singh Baldwin * Peter Bacho, American Book Award winner for the novel ''Cebu'' * Ravi Batra * Cathy Bao Bean (包圭漪) * Susham Bedi * Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) * Rick Barot * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (白萱华), poet listed in Amy Ling's bibliography, "Asian American Literature," in Redefining American Literary History, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., MLA, 1990. * Cecilia Manguerra Brainard * Sujata Bhatt * Jaswinder Bolina * Jenny Boully * Carlos Bulosan * Regie Cabico * Lan Cao * Celso Al Carunungan * Linda Ty Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian American Literature
Asian American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent. Asian American literature became a category during the 1970s but didn't see a direct impact in viewership until later in the 1970s. Perhaps the earliest references to Asian American literature appeared with David Hsin-fu Wand's ''Asian American Heritage: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry'', published in 1974. One of the earlier pieces of Asian American literature produced by Combined Asian American Resources Project (CARP) was ''Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers'' (1974). This anthology collected staples of long-forgotten Asian American literature and criticized the lack of visibility of this literature. This anthology brought to light the necessity of visibility and criticism of Asian American literature; with visibility came recognition of new literature. Elaine Kim's seminal book of criticism, ''Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Apostol
Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol (born 1963) is a Filipino-born writer based in the United States. Early life and education Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol was born in Manila the second child of her mother, Virginia. She grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, where she studied at Divine World College. Afterwards, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and a master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. Career Apostol's debut novel ''Bibliolepsy'', published by the University of the Philippines Press, won the 1997 Philippine National Book Award for Fiction. The novel is set in Manila in the 1980s, during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos up to the 1986 People Power Revolution. On its first run, the novel sold out and went out of print. It was republished in the United States by Soho Press in 2022. Her second novel, ''The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata'' won the 2010 Philippine National Book Award for Fiction, as well as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sujata Bhatt
Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet. Life and career Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she immigrated to United States with her family. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada. She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for her first collection ''Brunizem'' in 1987. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991 and Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000. She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the ''Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets''. Combining Gujarati and English, Bhatt writes "Indian-English rather than Anglo-Indian poetry."Schmidt, Michael: ''Lives of Poets'', p860. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. Michael Schmidt (poet) observed that her "free verse is fast-moving, urgent with narratives, softly spoken. Bhatt lives in Bremen, Germany Germany,, officially the Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an author and editor of 20 books. She co-founded PAWWA or Philippine American Women Writers and Artists; and also founded Philippine American Literary House. Brainard's works include the World War II novel, ''When the Rainbow Goddess Wept'', ''The Newspaper Widow'', ''Magdalena'', and ''Woman With Horns and Other Stories''. She edited several anthologies including ''Fiction by Filipinos in America'', ''Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America'', and two volumes of ''Growing Up Filipino I and II'', books used by educators."Who's Who of Asian Americans?", A Biography of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Asian American.net retrieved on: June 16, 2007 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (; born October 5, 1947, in Beijing, China) is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language poets, Language School, the poetry of the New York School (art), New York School, Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, and visual art. She is married to the painter Richard Tuttle, with whom she has frequently collaborated. Personal life Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing to Chinese and Dutch-American parents, and grew up near Boston, Massachusetts. She was educated at Barnard College, Barnard, Reed College, Reed, and Columbia University. After receiving her M.F.A. from Columbia in 1974, she settled in rural northern New Mexico, which has remained her primary residence ever since. Poetry After receiving her degree, Berssenbrugge became active in the multicultural poetry movement of the 1970s along with Leslie Marmon Silko as well as Ishmael Reed, theater director Frank Chin, and political activist Kathl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Barot
Rick Barot (born February 19, 1969) is an American poet and educator. Life Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: ''The Darker Fall'' (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; ''Want'' (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and ''Chord'' (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. Barot is the poetry editor of ''New England Review''. He lives in T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bette Bao Lord
Bette Bao Lord (Chinese: 包柏漪, Pinyin: Bāo Bóyì; born November 3, 1938) is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy. Early life Lord was born as Bette Bao in Shanghai, China. With her mother and father, Dora and Sandys Bao, and her younger sister, Cathy Bao, she came to the United States at the age of eight when her father, a British-trained engineer, was sent there in 1946 by the Chinese government to purchase equipment. In 1949 Bette Bao Lord and her family were stranded in the United States when Mao Zedong and his communist rebels won the civil war in China. Bette Bao Lord has written eloquently about her childhood experiences as a Chinese immigrant in the post-World War II United States in her autobiographical children's book ''In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson''. In this book she describes her efforts to learn English and to become accepted by her classmates and how she succeeds with the help of baseball and Jackie Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susham Bedi
Susham Bedi (1 July 1945 – 20 March 2020) was an Indian author of novels, short stories and poetry. She was a professor of Hindi language and literature at the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) at Columbia University, New York. She wrote predominantly about the experiences of Indians in the South Asian diaspora, focusing on psychological and 'interior' cultural conflicts. Unlike other prominent Indian American novelists she wrote mainly in Hindi rather than in English. She has been widely translated into English, French, Dutch and other languages by artists, academics, and students. She was an actress in India in the 1960s and early 1970s. In the United States, she appeared on such shows as '' True Crime: New York City'', ''Third Watch'', and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', and in movies such as '' The Guru'' (2002) and ''ABCD'' (1999). Career Early years Bedi began her writing career in high school and college, entering local c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Bao Bean
Cathy Bao Bean () is a Chinese-American writer and educator, and is the author of ''The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual'' (We Press, 2002). She lives in Frelinghuysen Township, New Jersey, with her husband, artist Bennett Bean. ''The Chopsticks-Fork Principle'', a humorous but poignant memoir, recounts Bao Bean's experiences as a Chinese immigrant growing up in the United States. Bao Bean uses the story of her own immigrant experience to explain how to reconcile the expectations of families and society at large. She also explains how to raise a child in a respectful context while also choosing the “path less traveled.” Early life and education Bean was born Kwei-yee Bao in Guilin, China, on August 27, 1942, to parents Sandys and Dora Bao. Her father, Sandys Bao, represented the Republic of China at the International Sugar Council of the United Nations; and he also served as Vice President of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation. Cathy Bao Bean has two sisters, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravi Batra
Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra (born June 27, 1943) is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with one (The Great Depression of 1990) reaching No. 1 in late 1987. His books center on his idea that financial capitalism breeds excessive inequality and political corruption, which inevitably succumbs to financial crisis and economic depression. In his works, Batra proposes an equitable distribution system known as Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) as a means to not only ensure material welfare but also to secure the ability of all to develop a full personality. Batra has appeared on CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, and CNBC, and has been profiled in ''The New York Times'', ''Time'', and ''Newsweek''. Since the financial crisis, Batra has been a frequent guest on radio shows and featured in numerous publications. Academic career Batra obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cebu (novel)
''Cebu'' is a 1991 novel by Filipino American author Peter Bacho the "most visible figure" of second-generation, native-born Filipino American writing and one of several Seattle novelists in the 1990s to explore the racial history and sociology of Seattle. The novel is also "the first novel about a Filipino American who identifies primarily with US localities," rather than with the Philippines. Plot summary The novel's main character is an American priest named Ben Lucero, who is the son of a Filipino mother and a Filipino American father, as he makes his first trip to the Philippines. When Ben's mother dies, he takes her body to Cebu, Philippines for burial; it is his first trip to his mother's country. In the Philippines, he stays with his mother's best friend from childhood, "Aunt" Clara Natividad, who has become a wealthy and powerful businesswoman but led guerilla fighters during the war and earned her fortune through ethically questionable business practices. The novel follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Book Award
The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers.""For Immediate Release:" (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012. The Award is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit , which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980. The Award honors excellence in American literature without restriction to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
