Wayson Choy

Raised in Vancouver, Wayson Choy is Professor Emeritus at Humber College in Toronto. His first novel, The Jade Peony, spent six months on The Globe and Mail’s national bestseller list, shared the Trillium Book Award for best book in 1995, and won the 1996 City of Vancouver Book Award. In 1999 Choy’s first memoir, Paper Shadows, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and in 2000 it was the winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative non-Fiction. All That Matters, a companion novel to The Jade Peony, won the Trillium Book Award in 2004 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Giller Prize.

Books

• Not Yet: a memoir of living and almost dying (Author)