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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Xinran: The Voice of the Good Women of China The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices is one of those books you just can’t put down. Part memoir, part history, part tragedy, part social documentary, Good Women...

All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

14 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

The Creation of Fiction Time for true confessions: When I read Ruth Ozeki's first novel, My Year of Meats, a quirky, rollicking, memorable adventure about a documentary filmmaker who exposes the abuses in...

Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America: 1903-2003 edited by Jenny Ryun Foster, Frank Stewart, and Heinz Insu Fenkl + Authors Profile [in KoreAm Journal]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean American, Nonfiction, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

Catch a Tiger by Its Tales: Celebrating 100 Years of Korean American Literature HONOLULU — Aesthetically, Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America 1903-2003 is one...

The Interpreter by Suki Kim + Author Profile [in KoreAm Journal]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Interpreting the Immigrant's Life: Urban girl Suki Kim makes her literary debut NEW YORK CITY — Suki Kim has a fantasy about “meeting all the many Asian Americans across the country.” She’s heard rumors that there are...

Wandering Warrior by Da Chen + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

31 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Chasing the Wandering Warrior With unabashed pride, I readily admit that I’m a Da Chen groupie. I’ve been one since reading and writing about his two luminous bestselling memoirs, Colors of the Mountain (HarperCollins, 2000),...

Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America: 1903-2003 edited by Jenny Ryun Foster, Frank Stewart, and Heinz Insu Fenkl + Authors Profile [in AsianWeek]

24 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean American, Nonfiction, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

To Tame the Tiger In a word, Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America: 1903-2003 is remarkable. One hundred years after the first group of 102...

The Interpreter by Suki Kim + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

24 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Literary Vagabond Suki Kim Makes Her Debut Suki Kim and I have so many similarities in our respective pasts that we most certainly have crossed paths before. We were both in London at the same time, studying...

Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience by Franklin Odo + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

17 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

History in the Making Franklin Odo is not one to rest on his laurels. As a man of many firsts – first from his Hawai‘i high school to get into Princeton, first Asian Pacific American to...

Good-bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong by Frances and Ginger Park, illustrated by Yangsook Choi + Illustrator Profile [in KoreAm Journal]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Korean American, Repost

Drawn to Life: Yangsook Choi, when not being a kid, is busy writing and illustrating children's books NEW YORK CITY — By the time Yangsook Choi graduated from art school, she already had her first...

Dear Santa, Please Come to the 19th Floor by Yin, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet + Illustrator Profile [in KoreAm Journal]

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Picture the World: Children's book illustrator Chris Soentpiet brings to life his diverse background NEW YORK CITY — Even after being rejected by more than 10 publishers, Chris Soentpiet (pronounced SOON-peet) kept pounding the pavement....

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park + Author Profile [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

When My Name Was Keoko is the first title for young audiences to deal with the Japanese occupation of Korea during the first half of the 20th century, a torturous part of history about which few...

Series Profile: The Girls of Many Lands [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, British, Chinese, Chinese American, European, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Isabel: Taking Wing by Annie Dalton Cécile: Gates of Gold by Mary Casanova Spring Pearl: The Last Flower by Laurence Yep Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway by Kirkpatrick Hill Neela: Victory Song by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Move over, Barbie...

Dear Santa, Please Come to the 19th Floor by Yin, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet + Illustrator Interview [in AsianWeek]

19 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Picturing the Worlds of Chris Soentpiet No number of rejections could dampen Chris Soentpiet’s determination to succeed and put his artwork forward. Even after being refused by more than 10 publishers as a fresh-faced college...

A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson + Author Profile [in KoreAm Journal]

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Korean, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Journey to the East: Katy Robinson's search for her Korean family in A Single Square Picture BOISIE, IDAHO — In 1977 at the age of 7, Kim Ji-yun left Seoul and arrived in...

Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost

Fox Girl takes readers back to post-Korean War “America Town,” where the abandoned, racially mixed children of U.S. soldiers fought for bare survival and Korean women continued to service occupying GIs in order to put food...

A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

09 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Korean, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Journey to the East A single Polaroid captures the day that Katy Robinson’s life changed forever. Her mother’s worried face, her grandmother’s stoic grimace, and Katy’s childishly silly smile mark the day that...

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park + Author Interview [in KoreAm Journal]

01 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Child's Play: The Writerly Life of Newbery Award-Winner Linda Sue Park ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When Linda Sue Park first received the call last spring that she had won the top honor in children’s literature –...

Publisher Profile: Kaya Press [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Pan-Asian, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Love's Labor's Not Lost: Kaya Press Sunyoung Lee and Juliana Koo make up the two-person office that is Kaya Press, a tiny, independent Asian/Asian Pacific American-focused, not-for-profit book publisher based in New York City. For...

Author Interview: Yangsook Choi [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Korean American, Repost

Being a Kid By the time Yangsook Choi graduated from art school, she already had her first book contract for what would become The Sun Girl and Moon Boy, a Korean folktale which Choi adapted...

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park + Author interview [in AsianWeek]

11 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Linda Sue Park's Post-Newbery Award Life Although Linda Sue Park was just 9 when her work was first published – a haiku for a children’s magazine – it would be almost three decades before she attempted her...