Joy Kogawa is one of Canada’s most honoured and loved authors. Born on Canada’s West Coast to immigrant Japanese parents before World War II, she experienced first-hand the forced displacement to labour camps that were such a shameful episode in that era.
Those experiences, of course, found their expression in her two best known works, Obasan, and it’s sequel, Itsuka. Although primarily known as a novelist, Ms. Kogawa is also widely admired as a powerful poet. The Splintered Moon and Woman In The Woods are recognized as important additions to Canadian poetry.
She is an Officer in the Order of Canada and has received numerous other awards as well as many honourary doctorates. The Literary Review has listed Obasan as one of Canada’s 100 most important books.
Events featuring Joy Kogawa:
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1.Workshop (Writing To Know Life) SOLD OUT
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2:30 - 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 15 at the Community School
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2.Solo Session 4:30 - 5:30 pm. Friday, July 16 at the Back Hall
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3.Main Stage Event (Starting Points: History, Imagination, Experience, with host Bill Richardson, also featuring Deborah Willis, Jan Zwicky, and Charlotte Gill) 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Saturday. July 17 at the Community Hall.
