Joy Nozomi Kogawa was born on June 6,1935 and is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent.
13 Facts About Joy Kogawa
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Joy Kogawa grew up in a predominantly white, middle-class community.
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Joy Kogawa moved back to Vancouver in 1956 and married David Kogawa there in 1957, with whom she had two children: Gordon and Deirdre.
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The couple divorced in 1968, and the same year Joy Kogawa attended the University of Saskatchewan.
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Joy Kogawa moved to Toronto in 1979 and has lived there since.
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Joy Kogawa's published first as a poet, beginning in 1968 with The Splintered Moon.
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Joy Kogawa began to work as a staff writer for the Office of the Prime Minister in Ottawa in 1974.
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Books in Canada awarded the book its First Novel Award for it in 1981, and in 1982 Joy Kogawa won the Book of the Year Award from the Canadian Authors Association and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
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Joy Kogawa adapted the book for children as Naomi's Road in 1985.
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In 2018, Joy Kogawa formed a group called Yojaros with a Vancouver-based Japanese poet Soramaru Takayama.
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Joy Kogawa wrote the narrative for the augmented reality game East of the Rockies, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and released in 2019.
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In 1986, Joy Kogawa was made a Member of the Order of Canada; in 2006, she was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.
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Joy Kogawa House was recommended to be given heritage status by the City of Vancouver and was placed on City Council's agenda for July 12,2022.