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Joy Kogawa


Canada (b.1935)

Joy Nozomi Kogawa is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Born Joy Nozomi Nakayama in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was sent to internment camps in the Slocan and Coaldale, Alberta during World War II. Although the majority of her writing is poetry, her best-known work is Obasan, a semi-autobiographical novel. A sequel, Itsuka, was rewritten and retitled Emily Kato.
 
 
Series
Naomi Nakane
   1. Obasan (1981)
   2. Itsuka (1992)
     aka Emily Kato
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Novels
   The Rain Ascends (1995)
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Collections
   The Splintered Moon (poems) (1967)
   A Choice of Dreams (poems) (1974)
   Jericho Road (poems) (1977)
   Woman in the Woods (poems) (1986)
   A Song of Lilith (poems) (2001)
   A Garden of Anchors (poems) (2003)
   From the Lost and Found Department (poems) (2023)
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Joy Kogawa recommends
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Daughters of Smoke and Fire (2020)
Ava Homa
"There is no more urgent a task for humanity than more fully knowing one another. In our time we are witnessing the betrayal of the Kurds. A betrayal that would not have happened if the world knew them as intimately as we know our own. This desperate gift is what comes our way from Ava Homa, a brave and brilliant storyteller, the first female Kurdish novelist writing in English who shows us, through one family’s story, the stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds. Read this book. Raise your voice. We can no longer afford the ‘us and them’ mentality."

Anthologies containing stories by Joy Kogawa
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Charlie Chan Is Dead (1993)
An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(Charlie Chan Is Dead, book 1)
edited by
Jessica Hagedorn
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From Ink Lake (1990)
Canadian Stories
edited by
Michael Ondaatje

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