Author Of "The Jade Peony", Wayson Choy, Died at 80
The Author Of The Award-winning Novel The Jade Peony, Wayson Choy, Died At The Age Of 80.
- Wayson Choy died at the age of 80.
- Wayson’s agent Denise Bukowski announced his death on Sunday.
- Wayson is widely known for being the author of an award-winning novel, The Jade Peony.
- It took Wayson around eighteen years to complete The Jade Peony.
Wayson Choy’s agent Denise Bukowski announced his death on Sunday, 28th April, via Twitter revealing that he died in his bed on Saturday night (27th April.)
We have lost our beloved Wayson Choy, who died in his bed last night. pic.twitter.com/rWLG8hrqIR
— Denise Bukowski (@BukowskiD) April 28, 2019
Wayson’s first novel, The Jade Peony, received the Trillium Book Award back in 1995. It was also a finalist in Canada Reads 2010 when Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child defended it.
The Jade Peony is set in the late 1930s and early 1940s in Vancouver’s Chinatown and seems to be of the family of Chinese immigrants living in that time through the eyes of their three children.
Wayson was a prominent voice for portraying the lives and culture of Chinese Canadians all over the world.
Wayson was born on April 20, 1939, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As a Chinese Canadian, he spent his childhood in the city’s Chinatown.
Wayson graduated from the University of British Columbia and later went on to teach English at Humber College. He then continued to teach at the Humber School for Writers.
It took Wayson around eighteen years to complete The Jade Peony; he discussed with Eleanor Wachtel on CBC Radio in the year 1996. The book initially began as a short story before changing it into a novel.