Paper Shadows

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Paper Shadows:
A Chinatown Childhood

First edition cover of Canadian release

Author| Wayson Choy
Subject|

* Immigrant generations
* memoir[1]

Publisher| Viking Penguin

Publication date

| 1 October 1999
Publication place| Canada
Media type| Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages| 352
ISBN| 978-0-312-28415-2

1999 memoir by Wayson Choy

Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood is a memoir written by the Canadian writer Wayson Choy, first published in October 1999 by Viking Press. In the book, the author chronicles his experience growing up as an immigrant in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1940s and 1950s.[2] Paper Shadows received shortlist honours for the 2000 Vancouver City Book Award and won the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.[2]

## References

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1. ^ Goodreads, Paper Shadows, Book review, 22 November 2012
2. ^ a b Faculty of Arts, 2000, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Wayson Choy, Retrieved 21 November 2012

## External links

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* Canadian Immigrant ORG, Immigrant Stories by Canadian Authors, Retrieved 21 November 2012

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Winners of the Edna Staebler Award

1990s|

* Susan Mayse, Ginger (1991)
* Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, (1992)
* Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana (1993)
* Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life (1994)
* Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children (1995)
* George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy (1996)
* Anne Mullens, Timely Death (1997)
* Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King (1998)
* Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane (1999)

2000s|

* Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows (2000)
* Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues (2001)
* Tom Allen, Rolling Home (2002)
* Alison Watt, The Last Island (2003)
* Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue (2004)
* Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret (2005)
* Francis Chalifour, After (2006)
* Linden MacIntyre, Causeway (2007)
* Bruce Serafin, Stardust (2008)
* Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House (2009)

2010s|

* John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life (2010)
* Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost (2011)
* Joshua Knelman, Hot Art (2012)
* Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss (2013)
* Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)
* Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015)
* Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016)
* Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017)
* Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)
* Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)

2020s|

* Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation (2020)
* Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Erratics: A Memoir (2021)
* Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing (2022)
* Hilary Peach, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood (2023)

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