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! 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". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA).
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    3. ^" National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. Retrieved With short interviews of winners and finalists.
    4. ^"Cynthia Kadohata '79".

      University of Southern California.

      Cynthia Kadohata - Encyclopedia.com: Washington Post Book World , June 25, , pp. Reviewers unanimously applauded Kadohata for the work. In the Heart of the Valley of Love also draws on a tragedy from it's author's past: One episode is based on a serious accident Kadohata experienced when a car jumped a curb and hit her, mangling her right arm. Toggle the table of contents.

      Retrieved 22 February

    5. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (13 October ). "Charlie O."The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 February
    6. ^"Cynthia Kadohata at Worldcat". . Retrieved 22 February
    7. ^van Harmelen, Jonathan. "Chick sexing".

      Kadohata biography Kakutani, Michiko. My mother says his last words to her were, "Be good. She won the Newbery medal, and she wrote a short fiction that has been seen in the New Yorker , Grand Street, and Pennsylvania Review. 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.

      Densho Encyclopedia. Densho. Retrieved 22 February

    8. ^"Cynthia Kadohata". BookBrowse.

      Katie uses the term to describe anything she really likes. Hidden categories: All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements. Cypriniformes I Minnows and Carps. Kadohata in

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    9. ^"About". Cynthia Kadohata. Archived from the original on
    10. ^Kakutani, Michiko (). "Books of The Times; Growing Up Rootless in an Immigrant Family". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved
    11. ^Cynthia Kadohata in libraries (WorldCat catalog).

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    12. ^" Awards Winners". APALA. Retrieved 1 February
    13. ^"Booklist – Middle School / Junior High"Archived at the Wayback Machine. California Young Reader Medal. Retrieved
    14. ^Goddu, Krystyna Poray ().

      Cynthia kadohata biography Sidelights Author Cynthia Kadohata 's background and experience have inspired each of her novels about young Asian-American teens. Li, review of In the Heart of the Valley of Love, p. That's impossible. My father was drafted out of the camp and assigned to the U.

      "'The Favorite Daughter' and 'The Thing About Luck'". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved

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

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    18. Weedflower summary
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    20. About - Cynthia Kadohata
    21. Cynthia Kadohata Biography - eNotes.com

      22. New York Times. Retrieved 14 May

    22. ^Maughan, Shannon. "Spring Children's Sneak Previews". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz. Retrieved 22 February
    23. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (13 October ).

      The story focuses on ten-year-old Katie Takeshima, a first-generation Japanese American whose family moves from Iowa to Georgia after their grocery store goes out of business. My father helped pick celery on the farm and did very little schoolwork. After an automobile jumped the curb and severely injured her arm, Kadohata moved to Boston where she concentrated on her writing career. But in these short stories I saw that people were writing now, and that the work was very alive.

      "Charlie O."The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 February

    24. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (). "Seven Moons". Grand Street. 7 (4): 73– doi/ JSTOR&#;
    25. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (). "Breece D'J Pancake". Mississippi Review. 18 (1): 35– JSTOR&#;
    26. ^"Winter ". Ploushares at Emerson College.

      Retrieved 22 February

    • Staff (September ) "Cynthia Kadohata – " Biography Today 15(3) pp.&#;38–49

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