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About Roy Miki
- Roy Akira Miki, (born 10 October 1942) is a Canadian poet, scholar, editor, and activist most known for his social and literary work. Born in Ste.
- Agathe, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, Miki grew up on a sugar beet farm before moving to Winnipeg.
- His family was forcibly relocated to Western Canada and interned during the Second World War.
- He earned his B.A.
- from the University of Manitoba, M.A.
- from the Simon Fraser University, and Ph.D.
- from the University of British Columbia.
- Miki taught contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University before retiring and holds the title of professor emeritus.
- He lives in Vancouver.
- In the 1980s, Miki was a "instrumental" in fighting for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.In 2002, Miki's book of poetry, Surrender, won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.
- His poetry focuses on questions about identity, citizenship, race, and place.
- He is the author of the critical study, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (1998), In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing (2011), The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams (1983), and an annotated bibliography of the poet and novelist George Bowering (1990).In 2006, Miki was made a Member of the Order of Canada and received the 20th annual Gandhi Peace Award for the truth, justice, human rights, and non-violence exemplified in his redress work.
- The same year, he also received the Thakore Visiting Scholar award and the Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy.
- In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
- In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.
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