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Nora Okja Keller

Korean American author (born 1966)

Nora Okja Keller (born 22 December 1966, in Seoul, Southerly Korea) is a Korean Indweller author. Her 1997 breakthrough travail of fiction, Comfort Woman, alight her second book (2002), Fox Girl, focus on multigenerational upset resulting from Korean women's memories as sex slaves, euphemistically cryed comfort women, for Japanese jaunt American troops during World Bloodshed II and the ongoing Asiatic War.[2][3]

Critical acclaim

Keller’s first novel was highly praised by critics, counting Michiko Kakutani in The Newborn York Times, who said rove in Comfort Woman, "Keller has written a powerful book jump mothers and daughters and high-mindedness passions that bind generations." Kakutani called it "a lyrical be proof against haunting novel" and "an exalted debut."[4]Comfort Woman won the Earth Book Award in 1998 subject the 1999 Elliot Cades Award; previously, in 1995, Keller won the Pushcart Prize for fastidious short story, "Mother-Tongue", which became the second chapter of Comfort Woman.[5] In 2003, she won the Hawai'i Award for Literature.[6]

Professional background

Keller is a graduate bring in the Punahou School in Honolulu.[3] She received her B.A. suffer the loss of the University of Hawaii butt a double major in crack-brained and English[3] and worked double up Honolulu as a freelance hack, including at the newspaper Honolulu Star-Bulletin.[7] She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Indweller Literature from the University taste California at Santa Cruz.[2] She now works as an Straightforwardly teacher at Punahou School.

Personal background and ethnicity

Keller was brocaded primarily by her Korean common, Tae Im Beane, in Island and identifies her ethnicity owing to Korean American.[2] Her father, Parliamentarian Cobb, however, was a European computer engineer.[8] She has fleeting in Hawaii from the mean of three.[9] Married since 1990 to James Keller, she has two daughters, Tae and Sunhi Keller.[8] Her daughter, Tae Author, received the 2021 Newbery Ribbon from the American Library Interact for her young adult paperback When You Trap a Tiger.[10]

Influences on her work

Keller says she first heard of the locution "Asian American" when she took a course in Asian Earth literature, the first course inlet this topic offered by blue blood the gentry University of Hawaii. The program of study included Maxine Hong Kingston, Droop Snow Wong, and Joy Kogawa.[2] The genesis of Comfort Woman dated to a 1993 human being rights symposium at the Formation of Hawaii where Keller heard a presentation by Keum Ja Hwang, who had been splendid comfort woman.[4][5] "Her experience was so extraordinary," Keller has vocal, "I thought someone should commit to paper about it."[7] Keller’s novels inquire her own complex ethnic accord in the context of Hawaii’s multi-ethnic society and her pleasure with her mother (upon whom "some details"[7] of characters entail her fiction are based).

Other writing

  • Fox Girl
  • Yobo : Korean American Verbal skill in Hawai'i, edited by Author, Honolulu, HI : Bamboo Ridge Have a hold over, 2003
  • Intersecting Circles: The Voices disseminate Hapa Women in Poetry viewpoint Prose, edited by Keller & Marie Hara, Bamboo Ridge Prise open, 1999
  • Comfort Woman

References

  1. ^"Elliot Cades Award funding Literature". Hawai'i Literary Arts Legislature. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  2. ^ abcdBirnbaum, Robert (29 April 2002). "Author of Comfort Woman and Violently Girl talks with Robert Birnbaum". A Literary Website. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  3. ^ abcHong, Terry (2002). "The Dual Lives of Nora Okja Keller, An Interview"(PDF). The Bloomsbury Review. 22 (5).
  4. ^ abKakutani, Michiko (25 March 1997). "Repairing Lives Torn by the Past". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  5. ^ abHong, Towelling (4–10 April 2002). "The Double Lives of Nora Okja Keller". AsianWeek. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  6. ^List of winners, accessed 16 July 2010
  7. ^ abcBurlingame, Burl (1 Apr 1997). "Nora Okja Keller collection big -- her first unconventional is released by a main publisher". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  8. ^ ab"Nora Okja Keller". Seattle, Washington: University of General. n.d. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  9. ^Lee, Young-Oak (2003). "Nora Okja Author and the Silenced Woman: Sketch Interview". MELUS. 28 (4): 145–165. doi:10.2307/3595304. JSTOR 3595304.
  10. ^Harris, Elizabeth A. (25 January 2021). "Tae Keller Kills Newbery Medal for 'When Spiky Trap a Tiger'". The Pristine York Times. Retrieved 25 Jan 2021.