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List Of Asian Canadian Writers
This is a list of Asian Canadian writers. A * Ken Adachi *Kamal Al-Solaylee B *Sharon Bala *Shauna Singh Baldwin * Himani Bannerji * Kaushalya Bannerji * Gurjinder Basran *Ven Begamudré *H. S. Bhabra * Navtej Bharati * Eddy Boudel Tan C *Jolan Chang * Cheng Sait Chia *Ins Choi * Denise Chong * Kevin Chong *Wayson Choy * Ook Chung *Adrienne Clarkson D *Farzana Doctor E * Winnifred Eaton F *Tarek Fatah * Dennis Foon G * C. E. Gatchalian * Shree Ghatage *Hiromi Goto H *Tara Singh Hayer * Ray Hsu J *Ramin Jahanbegloo K * Michael Kaan * Surjeet Kalsey * M. J. Kang *Roy Kiyooka *Michelle Kim *Joy Kogawa * Lydia Kwa L * Larissa Lai * Thao Lam *Vincent Lam * Evelyn Lau * JJ Lee * Jen Sookfong Lee * Nancy Lee * Pat Lee *Sky Lee * Nanda Lwin M * Deepa Mehta *Roy Miki *Rohinton Mistry * Shani Mootoo *Bharati Mukherjee, now a U.S. citizen N *Zarqa Nawaz O *Michael Ondaatje *Ruth Ozeki P *Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Q * Andy Quan R * Gurcharan Rampuri *Ian Iqbal Rashid * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Canadian
Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia. Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise both the largest and fastest growing group in Canada, after European Canadians, with roughly 19.3% of the Canadian population as of 2021. Most Asian Canadians are concentrated in the urban areas of Southern Ontario, Southwestern British Columbia, Central Alberta, and other large Canadian cities. Asian Canadians are considered visible minorities and may be classified as East Asian Canadians, Southeast Asian Canadians, South Asian Canadians, and West & Central Asian Canadians. As of the 2016 Canadian census, the pan-ethnic breakdown of major Asian-origin Canadian groups includes East Asian Canadians (2,148,230 people or 35.2%), South Asian Canadians (1,963,330 people or 32.2%), Southeast Asian Canadians (1,214,835 people or 19.9%), and West & Central Asian Canadians (1,011,150 people or 16.6%). In further detail, the largest self-re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (January 18, 1926January 8, 1994) was a Canadian painter, poet, photographer, arts teacher, and multi-media artist. Biography A Nisei, or a second generation Japanese Canadian, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and raised in Calgary, Alberta. His parents were Harry Shigekiyo Kiyooka and Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka. Roy's grandfather on the maternal side, a samurai Ōe Masamichi, was the 17th headmaster of the Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū school of swordsmanship. Roy Kiyooka's brother Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka also became an abstract painter, a professor of art, and sometimes a curator of his brother's work. Roy's youngest brother Frank Kiyooka became a potter. In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the family was uprooted and moved to a small town in rural Alberta called Opal. Roy Kiyooka was unable to finish high school. From 1946 to 1949, he studied with Jock Macdonald and Illingworth Holey Kerr at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surjeet Kalsey
Surjeet Kalsey (born in Amritsar, Punjab, India)W. H. New, ed. is a Canadian poet, dramatist, short story writer and translator who lives in British Columbia and writes in both Punjabi and English. She has published a dozen books. Life After receiving a Master's Degree in English and Punjabi Literature from Punjab University, Chandigarh, she worked as the Punjabi Regional News Anchor for All India Radio. Kalsey earned a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and worked as a freelance writer, interpreter, and translator for several years. She earned a fourth master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of British Columbia, after which she has worked as a family therapist and bi-lingual instructor at the Vancouver Community College Vancouver Community College is a public community college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1965, it is the largest and oldest community college in British Columbia, offering 91 certificate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kaan
Michael Kaan is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''The Water Beetles'' was published in 2017. The novel, a family saga about a young boy's experience during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, was based in part on Kaan's father's memoirs. Life Kaan, the child of a father from Hong Kong and a Canadian mother, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He completed a degree in English from the University of Manitoba, later completing an MBA in Health Economics from the same institution. He has worked as a healthcare administrator since 2000, primarily in mental health and health research. Work ''The Water Beetles'' was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Ramin Jahanbegloo ( fa, رامین جهانبگلو, born 28 December 1956 in Tehran) is an Iranian philosopher and academic based in Toronto, Canada. Biography Ramin Jahanbegloo was born in Tehran, Iran. He has a doctorate in philosophy from Sorbonne University in Paris, France where he lived for twenty years. He was a post-doctorate fellow in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He is married to Azin Moalej and had a daughter named Afarin Jahanbegloo. Academic and intellectual career Jahanbegloo's intellectual activity focuses on fostering constructive dialogue between divergent cultures. He has written numerous books and articles in Persian, English and French on the subject of Western philosophy and modernity. In 1991 he published his book ''Conversations with Isaiah Berlin'' in French, which was translated into English and published the following year. The book records a series of interviews with the famous philosopher Isaiah Berlin, which cover intellectual question ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Hsu
Ray Hsu was a Canadian professor at the University of British Columbia. His primary research areas are virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. Biography Hsu grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He received an Honours B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He conducts research at the University of British Columbia's Emerging Media Lab and teaches at the Social Justice Institute. In 2007, Hsu and his work were the subject of an episode of the television documentary series produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge. In 2013, he was named one of Vancouver's "most promising entrepreneurs" by the Globe and Mail. In 2017, he was a keynote speaker at Re-animating & Re-searching: Mobilizing Knowledge in Education. Books * ''Anthropy'' (2004) * ''Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon'' (2010) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Singh Hayer
Tara Singh Hayer (November 15, 1936 – November 18, 1998) was an Indian-Canadian newspaper publisher and editor who was murdered after his outspoken criticism of fundamentalist violence and terrorism. In particular, he was a key witness in the trial of the Air India Flight 182 bombing. Hayer was the founder of the '' Indo-Canadian Times'', the largest and oldest Punjabi-language weekly newspaper in Canada and the leading Punjabi-language newspaper in North America. The paper—distributed in Canada, the United States, and England—was regularly used by Hayer to speak out against violent extremist groups.https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/lbrr/archives/cn33719-2-2-eng.pdf He is the first, and one of the few journalists in Canada, to have been killed specifically for their work. History Personal life Hayer was born in Paddi Jagir, a small village in Punjab, India. He emigrated to Canada in 1970, where he worked as a miner, teacher, truck driver, manager of a trucking firm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto (born December 31, 1966 Chiba-ken, Japan) is a Japanese-Canadian writer, editor, and instructor of creative writing. Life Goto was born in Chiba'ken, Japan in 1966 and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1969. They lived on the west coast of British Columbia for eight years before moving to Nanton, Alberta, a small town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where her father farmed mushrooms. Goto earned her B.A. in English from the University of Calgary in 1989, where she received creative writing instruction from Aritha Van Herk and Fred Wah. Goto's grandmother told her Japanese stories when she was growing up. Her work is also influenced by her father's life stories in Japan. These stories often featured ghosts and folk creatures such as the kappa — a small creature with a frog's body, a turtle's shell and a bowl-shaped head that holds water. Her writing commonly explores the themes of race, gender and cultural experiences, like eating, while moving betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shree Ghatage
Shree Ghatage (born 1957) is a Canadian writer. She was born in Bombay, India and moved to Canada in 1983, settling in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She has won three awards in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition. Her written works share a common theme, describing life in India based on her own memories and experiences. Ghatage's first book, ''Awake When All the World is Asleep'' (1997), a collection of short stories set in Bombay, was awarded the Thomas Head Raddall Award. She currently lives in Calgary, Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter .... Bibliography *''Awake When All the World Is Asleep'' (1997) *''Brahma's Dream'' (2005) *''Thirst'' (2012) Awards *Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize *Shortlisted, Danuta Gleed Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Foon
Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of plays that continue to be produced internationally in numerous languages. He has received the British Theatre Award, two Chalmers awards, the Jesse Richardson Career Achievement Award, a Governor General's nomination for ''Skin'', and the International Arts for Young Audiences Award for these. In 2007, he was made a lifetime member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada for “his outstanding contribution to Canadian Playwriting and Theatre.” Foon's screenplays have continued his exploration into the psyche of youth: ''Little Criminals'' (1995), produced as a CBC movie about an 11-year-old gang leader, won multiple national and international awards; ''Life, Above All'' (2011), is a feature that received a ten-minute standing ovation at Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarek Fatah
Tarek Fatah ( Punjabi/Urdu: ; born 20 November 1949) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author.An Indian born in Pakistan: Meet and chat with Tarek Fatah at Firstpost Salon this Thursday Firstpost, 23 November 2015. Fatah advocates , a separation of religion and state, opposition to ''sharia'' law, and advocacy for a liberal, progressive form of |
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