Highlights for “Joy of Canadian Words” Fundraiser
7:30pm, April 25th, 2006 Christ Church Cathedral (Georgia and Burrard) We have invited actors and cultural celebrities to help us read some of Canada’s most important literary works. We started with the Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Greatest Canadian Books Ever...
Globe & Mail: Restoring a book to life
Restoring a book to life Joy Kogawa has rewritten one of her novels. It’s less easy to save her family home, writes Michael Posner The Globe and Mail, March 9, 2006 Michael Posner For Joy Kogawa, this should be a time of celebration and fulfillment. Penguin has...
Vancouver Sun: Tribute like coming Home, Kogawa says…
Tribute like coming home, Kogawa says Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun Published: Thursday, February 16, 2006 Vancouver writer and poet Joy Kogawa told the Canadian Club Wednesday she felt she had “come home” when the City of Vancouver chose her book Obasan as...
Joy Kogawa Cherry Tree Planting at Vancouver City Hall
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.
Obasan in “100 Most Important Canadian books ever written”
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.