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Karen Tei Yamashita



Heralded as a 'big talent' by the Los Angeles Times and praised by Newsday for '[wrestling] with profound philosophical and social issues' while delivering an 'immensely entertaining story,' Karen Yamashita is the recipient of an American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A California native who has also lived in Brazil and Japan, she teaches at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where she received the Chancellor's Award for Diversity in 2009.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
I Hotel
   I Hotel (2010)
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Novels
   Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990)
   Brazil-maru (1992)
   Tropic of Orange (1997)
   Circle K Cycles (2001)
   Letters to Memory (2017)
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Collections
   Anime Wong (2014)
   Sansei and Sensibility (2020)
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Anthologies containing stories by Karen Tei Yamashita
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Charlie Chan Is Dead 2 (2004)
At Home in the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(Charlie Chan Is Dead, book 2)
edited by
Jessica Hagedorn

Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (2010) : I Hotel


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