Wayson Choy and I were both English teachers at Humber College in Toronto when he published his first book, The Jade Peony, in 1995. He was 56 at the time, a late-breaking author. I had published my ...

A Canadian literary giant has died eight days after his 80th birthday. Wayson Choy is best known as the author of The Jade Peony, which was a pioneering novel about three Chinese Canadian siblings ...

Jen Sookfong Lee first stumbled across the work of Wayson Choy in the early ’90s, when she was in Grade 11. Choy, who was raised in Vancouver, had written a short story called “The Jade Peony”, which ...

I got to know Wayson Choy sitting across the table from him over a series of meals in the later years of his life. We were introduced via email by Michael Erickson, co-owner of Glad Day Bookshop, in ...

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In 1995, when Canadian literature felt very white, Wayson Choy published a novel that was not only an exceptional piece of writing, but one that depicted a family that many readers recognized: new ...

Wayson Choy, the author of the award-winning novel The Jade Peony, died on Sunday April 28, 2019. He was 80 years old. CBC Books confirmed the death with Choy's long-time agent Denise Bukowski. His ...