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Wayson Choy (????????? Pinyin: Cu?? W??ix??n ; Jyutping: Ceoi1 Wai4-san1) (born April 20, 1939) is a Vancouver-born Canada|Canadian writer of Chinese Canadian|Chinese ancestry who spent his childhood in Vancouver's Chinatown.

He is the author of the novel The Jade Peony (1995) which won the Trillium Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. He also wrote the memoir Paper Shadows: a Chinatown Childhood (1999), which won the Edna Staebler Creative Non-Fiction Award and was nominated for a 1999 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award.

Choy attended the University of British Columbia, where he studied creative writing. Moving to Toronto in 1962, Choy taught at Toronto's Humber College and the Humber School for Writers from 1967 to 2004. He was president of Cahoots Theatre Company of Toronto from 1999 to 2002.

His newest novel, All That Matters, was published in 2004. In 2005, he was named a member of the Order of Canada.

Last Modified:   2005-11-07