Kadohata biography

Cynthia Kadohata

Japanese-American children's writer (born )

Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, )[1] is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in [2] She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in for The Thing About Luck.[3]

Biography

Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in She received a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California in [4] She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.

Kadohata started her writing career with short story submissions to magazines. Her first publication, titled Charlie O., was published in in The New Yorker.[5] Later stories were published in The Pennsylvania Review, Grand Street, and Ploughshares.[6]

Weedflower, her second children's book, was published in Spring It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II.

Her third children's novel, Cracker!

Cynthia Kadohata is an American author, who has written many well known novels. She won the Newbery medal, and she wrote a short fiction that has been seen in the New Yorker , Grand Street, and Pennsylvania Review. Her autobiographical novel on Japanese American life is also widely known and highly reviewed. Cynthia also earned a journalism degree at University of Southern California. Cynthia Kadohata was born on July 02, in Chicago, Illinois.

The Best Dog in Vietnam about the Vietnam War from a war dog's perspective, was published in January by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Outside Beauty, another children's novel, was published in It is about a year-old girl and her three sisters, all fathered by different men and what happens when she and her sisters are separated from each other after their mother gets into an accident.

At least two of Kadohata's books touch on the topic of chick sexing. The family of the main character in her first novel, 's The Floating World, and also the family of the protagonist in 's Kira-Kira are employed at chicken hatcheries separating male chicks from female.[7] Kadohata's inspiration was her own personal experience.

Her father was a chick sexer during her childhood.[8]

As of January , Kadohata lived in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, son, and dogs.[9]

Novels

Newbery Medal[2]
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Youth Literature[12]
PEN USA Award
  • Cracker!

    The Best Dog in Vietnam (Atheneum, )

California Young Reader Medal, [13]
North Carolina Children's Book Award, Ohio Buckeye Children's Book Award, Nebraska Golden Sower, Kansas William Allen White Children's Book Award, South Carolina Junior Book Award
  • Outside Beauty (Atheneum, )
  • A Million Shades of Gray (Atheneum, )
  • The Thing About Luck (Atheneum, ), illustrated by Julia Kuo[14]
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Youth Literature[15]
  • Half a World Away (Atheneum, )[16]
  • Checked (Atheneum, )
  • A Place to Belong (Atheneum, )
  • Vape (Caitlyn Dlouhy, )[17]

Short stories

  • Charlie O., (The New Yorker, October 12, )[18]
  • Seven Moons, (Grand Street vol 7 no 4, )[19]
  • Breece D'J Pancake, (Mississippi Review vol 18 no 1, )[20]
  • Gray Girl, (Ploughshares 25, December, 1, )[21]

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdCynthia Kadohata at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB).

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  2. ^ ab"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, –Present".

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  6. ^" National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. Retrieved With short interviews of winners and finalists.
  7. ^"Cynthia Kadohata '79".

    University of Southern California.

  8. Rajani larocca wikipedia
  9. Weedflower summary
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  11. Cynthia Kadohata: books, biography, latest update - amazon.com
  12. Cynthia Kadohata - Wikipedia

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  13. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (13 October ). "Charlie O."The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 February
  14. ^"Cynthia Kadohata at Worldcat". . Retrieved 22 February
  15. ^van Harmelen, Jonathan. "Chick sexing". Densho Encyclopedia.

    Densho. Retrieved 22 February

  16. ^"Cynthia Kadohata". BookBrowse. Retrieved 22 February
  17. ^"About". Cynthia Kadohata. Archived from the original on
  18. ^Kakutani, Michiko (). "Books of The Times; Growing Up Rootless in an Immigrant Family".

    Cynthia kadohata biography Since publishing her first novel, The Floating World, in , Cynthia Kadohata has been viewed as one of the most compelling novelists in the United States. At the same time, she has tended to be described as a Japanese American writer, a distinction the author feels is both flattering and misleading. In her work Kadohata does explore the complications that come with having a "hyphenated heritage," or two heritages, however she believes that her novels have a more universal appeal. One reason is that all of her books are coming-of-age stories that explore such common themes as feeling different and struggling to find an identity. Another reason that Kadohata's books are so appealing is that she draws from her own childhood experiences.

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  19. ^Cynthia Kadohata in libraries (WorldCat catalog). Retrieved
  20. ^" Awards Winners". APALA. Retrieved 1 February
  21. ^"Booklist – Middle School / Junior High"Archived at the Wayback Machine. California Young Reader Medal.

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  22. ^Goddu, Krystyna Poray (). "'The Favorite Daughter' and 'The Thing About Luck'". The New York Times.

    Cynthia Kadohata - Encyclopedia.com: Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, ) [1] is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in [2] She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in for The Thing About Luck.

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  23. ^" AWARDS WINNERS". APALA. Retrieved 1 February
  24. ^RITA WILLIAMS-GARCIA (17 Oct ). "Sunday Book Review: 'Half a World Away' by Cynthia Kadohata". New York Times.

    Cynthia Kadohata has been writing since When she was 25 and completely directionless, she took a Greyhound bus trip up the West Coast, and then down through the South and Southwest. She met people she never would have met otherwise. It was during that bus trip, which lasted a month, that she rediscovered in the landscape the magic she'd known as a child. Though she had never considered writing fiction before, the next year she decided to begin.

    Retrieved 14 May

  25. ^Maughan, Shannon. "Spring Children's Sneak Previews". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz. Retrieved 22 February
  26. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (13 October ). "Charlie O."The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 February
  27. ^Kadohata, Cynthia ().

    "Seven Moons". Grand Street.

    Kadohata biography Cynthia Kadohata born July 2, [ 1 ] is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in Kadohata was born in Chicago , Illinois. Kadohata started her writing career with short story submissions to magazines. Her first publication, titled Charlie O. Weedflower , her second children's book, was published in Spring

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  28. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (). "Breece D'J Pancake". Mississippi Review. 18 (1): 35– JSTOR&#;
  29. ^"Winter ". Ploushares at Emerson College. Retrieved 22 February
  • Staff (September ) "Cynthia Kadohata – " Biography Today 15(3) pp.&#;38–49

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