
Full Season Ahead at Historic Joy Kogawa House
From writing workshops to a French-language event to launch the new Paris edition of Obasan, members and friends of Historic Joy Kogawa House have a full season ahead this fall.
From writing workshops to a French-language event to launch the new Paris edition of Obasan, members and friends of Historic Joy Kogawa House have a full season ahead this fall.
On September 10, 2005, Vancouver City Council adopted a Motion on Notice to plant a cutting of Joy Kogawa’s cherry tree on the City Hall campus as a way to commemorate the experience of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Speaking at the ceremony were Mayor Campbell, Paul Whitney, City Librarian, Vancouver Public Library, and James W. Wright, General Director, Vancouver Opera.
Joy Kogawa’s 1981 novel Obasan is one of “100 most important Canadian books ever written” according to a Literary Review of Canada November 17th press release.