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UBC - Laurier Institution Multiculturalism Lecture – 2010

Wayson Choy

April 11, 2010
UBC Chan Centre

"Are We There Yet?"

 Guest lecturer: Wayson Choy


About the speaker:
Wayson Choy explored his personal view that many of us – whether recent arrivals or long-established citizens – suffer fears that may damage Canada’s quest to become a multicultural nation.  As an “in-between citizen” all his life, growing up between values and cultures, he proposes some challenging antidotes – “remedies” – that have both lightened and enlightened his life.
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This program was originally broadcast on CBC Radio One's "Ideas."
The program is broadcast Monday through Friday from 9 to 10 pm (9:30 NT).

Wayson Choy was born 1939, in Vancouver, B.C. and is a renowned author and social commentator, he has appeared as the subject in Unfolding the Butterfly, a full-length film documentary by Michael Glassbourg, and was featured on the co-produced China-Canada documentary, In Search of Confucius. His latest book is Not Yet, a memoir “about living and almost dying”.

Wayson is the Recipient of the Order of Canada, Professor Emeritus, Humber College - Humber School for Writers and author of Not Yet, a memoir of Living and Almost Dying.Wayson Choy

He is also  the author of the  Trillium book award winner in  2004 for the Novel All That Matters, a national bestseller and  finalist for The Giller Prize 2004.  His other books include The Jade Peony, a novel of Vancouver’s Chinatown Cited by the Literary Review of Canada, 2005: “One of the 100 Most Important Books in Canadian History” , Notable Book (American Library Association, 1998)Trillium Book Award Winner (co-winner with Margaret Atwood, 1996) and City of Vancouver Book Award Winner, 1996

Paper Shadows, a memoir of a Chinatown Childhood  and the Edna Staebler Award Winner for Creative Non Fiction, 2000;  National Bestseller and Finalist, Governor-General Award   ;Finalist, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction., Finalist, Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize

Wayson has also been an educator at the Harbourfront Festival Prize, International Festival of Authors, Toronto, 2008 , Writer-In-Residence, University of Guelph,  2007, The Calliope Award Outstanding Achievement in Writing and Mentoring,2005,Millennium Lifetime Achievement Award, Humber College, Toronto, 2002, The Bradwin Lecture Medal, Frontier College, 1998

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