Joy Kogawa
b. 1935
Mention de source
Samuel Engelking
Biographie
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, poet and novelist Joy Kogawa was sent with her family to an internment camp for Japanese-Canadians during World War II, and her writing often focuses on the lasting scars of racism. The Historic Joy Kogawa House — Kogawa’s childhood home, which was expropriated from her family during the war and nearly demolished in 2005 — operates a writer-in-residence program. Kogawa is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
