What is Wayson Choy?
'''Wayson Choy''' {{Small|[[Order of Canada|CM]]}} ({{Lang-zh|崔維新}}; April 20, 1939 – April 28, 2019) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[novelist]]. Choy wrote the award-winning book ''[[The Jade Peony]]'' (1995). The novel's [[sequel]], ''[[All That Matters (novel)|All That Matters]]'', was [[published]] in 2004. His [[memoir]] ''[[Paper Shadows|Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood]]'' (1999), won the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. In 2005, Choy was made a member of the [[Order of Canada]]. Choy was born in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]]. He had a [[Chinese people|Chinese]] background. He spent his childhood in the city's [[Chinatown]]. Choy attended ''Gladstone Secondary School'' in [[East Vancouver]]. He attended the [[University of B.C.]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/noted-vancouver-born-author-wayson-choy-dead-at-80 | title=Vancouver-born author Wayson Choy dead at 80 }}</ref> Choy was [[openly gay]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/vancouver+native+wayson+choy+chinatown+coming+favourite+books/11125837/story.html|title=Vancouver native Wayson Choy on Chinatown, coming out as a gay man, and his favourite books|work=[[Vancouver Sun]]|date=June 10, 2015|access-date=April 29, 2019|author=Zacharias, Yvonne|archive-date=September 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916045850/http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/vancouver+native+wayson+choy+chinatown+coming+favourite+books/11125837/story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Choy died on April 28, 2019, at the age of 80.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/wayson-choy-author-of-the-jade-peony-dead-at-80-1.5114595|title=Wayson Choy, author of The Jade Peony, dead at 80|publisher=[[CBC]]|date=April 28, 2019|access-date=April 29, 2019|author=Balser, Erin}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Choy, Wayson}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Canadian autobiographers]] [[Category:Canadian LGBT people]] [[Category:Canadian n