CHOY

Wayson Choy's first novel, The Jade Peony, spent 26 weeks on "The Globe and Mail's bestseller list and placed number six on its 1996 Year-End National Bestseller List for fiction. It shared the Trillium Award that year with Margaret Atwood and won the Vancouver Book Award. Begun as a short story in 1977, The Jade Peony went on to be anthologized more than 25 times. His bestselling memoir, Paper Shadows, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and was a 1999 "Globe and Mail Notable Book...See more

Wayson Choy's first novel, The Jade Peony, spent 26 weeks on "The Globe and Mail's bestseller list and placed number six on its 1996 Year-End National Bestseller List for fiction. It shared the Trillium Award that year with Margaret Atwood and won the Vancouver Book Award. Begun as a short story in 1977, The Jade Peony went on to be anthologized more than 25 times. His bestselling memoir, Paper Shadows, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and was a 1999 "Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year. Wayson Choy lives in Toronto. See less