Fonds MsC-56 - Wayson Choy fonds

Title and statement of responsibility area

Title proper

Wayson Choy fonds

General material designation

  • Textual records
  • Photographic materials

Parallel title

Other title information

Title statements of responsibility

Title notes

Level of description

Fonds

Reference code

MsC-56

Edition area

Edition statement

Edition statement of responsibility

Class of material specific details area

Statement of scale (cartographic)

Statement of projection (cartographic)

Statement of coordinates (cartographic)

Statement of scale (architectural)

Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)

Dates of creation area

Date(s)

  • 1963, 1979, 1995-1997 (Creation)
    Creator
    Choy, Wayson

Physical description area

Physical description

6.5 cm of textual records and other material

Publisher's series area

Title proper of publisher's series

Parallel titles of publisher's series

Other title information of publisher's series

Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series

Numbering within publisher's series

Note on publisher's series

Archival description area

Name of creator

(1939-2019)

Biographical history

Wayson Choy (April 20, 1939 - April 28, 2019) was a Canadian writer. Choy was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1939 and grew up in the city's Chinatown. He attended the University of British Columbia, where he studied creative writing, then moved to Toronto in 1962 and taught at Humber College from 1967 to 2004. He taught at the Humber School for Writers. He was president of Cahoots Theatre Company of Toronto from 1999 to 2002. Choy 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 Award for Creative Non-Fiction and was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Choy's 2004 novel, All That Matters , was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2005, he was named a member of the Order of Canada.

Custodial history

Donated by UBC English emeritus professor Dr. Jan de Bruyn ca. 2001.

Scope and content

The fonds consists of correspondence; news clippings, photographs, inscribed copy of Choy's novel The Jade Peony.

Notes area

Physical condition

Immediate source of acquisition

Arrangement

Language of material

    Script of material

      Location of originals

      Availability of other formats

      Restrictions on access

      Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication

      Finding aids

      No inventory.

      Finding aid

      Associated materials

      Related materials

      Accruals

      Alternative identifier(s)

      Standard number

      Standard number

      Access points

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Name access points

      Genre access points

      Control area

      Description record identifier

      Institution identifier

      Rules or conventions

      Rules for Archival Description

      Status

      Published

      Level of detail

      Full

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Created May 20, 2014, LZ

      Language of description

      • English

      Script of description

        Sources

        Accession area