(1942-10-10) October 10, 1942 (age 81) Ste. Agathe, Manitoba
Occupation
Poet, scholar, editor, and activist
Nationality
Canadian
Education
University of Manitoba (B.A.)
Simon Fraser University (M.A.)
University of British Columbia (Ph.D.)
Notable awards
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry (2002)
Gandhi Peace Award (2006)
Canadian poet, scholar, editor, and activist
Roy Akira Miki, CM OBC FRSC (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.[1][2][3] His family was forcibly relocated West to Manitoba where he was born in 1942 on said sugar beet farm, and interned during the Second World War.[1] 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.[1][4] Miki taught contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University before retiring and holds the title of professor emeritus.[1] 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.[2][4]
In 2002, Miki's book of poetry, Surrender, won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.[4] His poetry focuses on questions about identity, citizenship, race, and place.[4] 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).[4]
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.[2][5] The same year, he also received the Thakore Visiting Scholar award and the Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy.[6] In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[4] In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.[4]
^ abcd"Roy Miki". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
^ abc"Asian Heritage Month". CBC News. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
^"Roy Miki". Ryerson University. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
^ abcdefgDobson, Kit (2012–2014). "Roy Akira Miki". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
^Order of Canada citation
^"Roy Miki". Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
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