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The Samurai's GardenGail Tsukiyama
The Samurai's Garden is the second novel by Gail Tsukiyama and widely considered her finest and most mature novel to date. Set against the historical reality of the Japanese invasion of China in the years leading to the outbreak of World War II,...
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Gail Tsukiyama writes to explore her dual heritage
March 29, 1998Elisabeth Sherwin -- gizmo@ dcn.davis.ca.us
"Writing chose me," said Gail Tsukiyama. "It came out of the need to learn about my heritage."
Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco to a Chinese mother and an Americanized Japanese father from Hawaii. She lives in El Cerrito.
When she went to college at San Francisco State she thought she'd major in film.
"I saw life in images and stories and took film classes," she said recently, speaking at UC Davis fund-raiser for a new battered women's shelter.
"Then I took a film writing class and realized it was much closer to what I wanted to do. So I moved from film to writing and wrote poetry throughout college. Poetry made up my master's thesis," she added.
"Now I work on novels but sometimes a line of poetry come to me and I say: 'I wish I had time to write that.' Poetry gave me the foundation of language; I moved from film to poetry to short stories to novels.
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Tsukiyama, Gail
PERSONAL:
Born in San Francisco, CA. Education:San Francisco State University, B.A. and M.A.
ADDRESSES:
Home—El Cerrito, CA. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Writer, editor, and teacher. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, part-time lecturer in creative writing; San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, freelance book reviewer; WaterBridge Review, book review editor. Kiriyama Book Prize judge, 1997-99.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Academy of American Poets Award; chosen by Library of Congress to participate in first National Book Festival, in Washington, DC, 2001.
WRITINGS:
Women of the Silk, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1991.
The Samurai's Garden, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1995.
Night of Many Dreams, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1998.
The Language of Threads, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1999.
Dreaming Water, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2002.
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, St. Martin's