Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) and Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable. Joy Kogawa (Naomi’s Tree) and Maggie DeVries (Hunger Journeys and Chance and the Butterfly) will discuss the ways in which contemporary children’s literature can address the effects of social conflict in the world, and at the same time inspire hope and a desire to bring about positive change. This event, presented in conjunction with MOA’s exhibition ひろしま hiroshima.
Speaker Biographies
Joy Kogawa is a poet and novelist. She is best known for her award-winning novel OBASAN (1981), one of the Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books. She is a Member of the ORDER OF CANADA and of the ORDER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. She has received honourary doctorates from many Canadian universities and was the recipient of a NAJC National Award from the National Association of Japanese Canadians (2001). In 2008 she was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.
Maggie de Vries has taught children’s literature courses in the department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC, and has taught at Simmons College in Boston, and Langara College. She has also been a children’s book editor at Orca Book Publishers, and a Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library.
Select Books Available at UBC Library
Kogawa, Joy. (2008). Naomi’s Tree. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside. [Link]
Kogawa, Joy. (2003). Obasan. Toronto, ON: Penguin Canada. [Link]
De Vries, Maggie. (2011). Somebody’s Girl. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. [Link]
De Vries, Maggie. (2010). Hunger Journeys. Toronto, ON: Harper Trophy Canada. [Link]
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