Know your Asian-Canadian authors 1

May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada! To help you get in the spirit-and also test your knowledge of Canadian literature-we invite you to try our quiz on some of the prominent authors of Asian origin in Canada.

1. This Montréal-based author's debut novel, Ru, won the Governor General's Award in 2010.a) Ven Begamudréb) Ying Chenc) Kim Thúy
2. This Vancouver-born poet and novelist's semi-autobiographical novel, Obasan, tells the story of a young girl's experiences in an internment camp during the Second World War.a) Joy Kogawab) Roy Mikic) Aki Shimazaki
3. This author's short-story collection Laterna Magika was a finalist for the 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book from Canada and the Caribbean.a) Shauna Singh Baldwinb) Ven Begamudréc) Souvankham Thammavongsa
4. The novels of this author, winner of the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature, are set in the city of Mumbai, his birthplace.a) Michael Ondaatjeb) Wayson Choyc) Rohinton Mistry
5. This Montréal-born novelist won the 2000 regional Commonwealth Writers' Best Book Prize for the novel What the Body Remembers.a) Shauna Singh Baldwinb) Ray Hsuc) Kim Thúy
6. This Vancouverite won the Trillium Book Award for his debut novel, The Jade Peony.a) Roy Mikib) Michael Ondaatjec) Wayson Choy
7. This award-winning Quebec author is famous for her pentalogy (a series of five novels), which has been translated into English, Japanese, German and Hungarian.a) Ying Chenb) Aki Shimazakic) Souvankham Thammavongsa
8. This author, born in a refugee camp, won the Trillium Book Award in 2014 for her poetry collection Light.a) Joy Kogawab) Souvankham Thammavongsac) Kim Thúy
9. This Vancouver poet won the 2005 Gerald Lampert Award for the poetry collection Anthropy, the first work in a series exploring "the grammar of personhood."a) Ray Hsub) Rohinton Mistryc) Aki Shimazaki
10. A Canadian nurse named Hana and an unidentified burn victim are some of the characters in this author's Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient, set during the Second World War.a) Wayson Choyb) Rohinton Mistryc) Michael Ondaatje
11. This Winnipeg-born poet won the 2002 Governor General's Award for his collection of poetry entitled Surrender.a) Ven Begamudréb) Ray Hsuc) Roy Miki
12. Winner of the 1995 Prix Québec-Paris for the novel L'ingratitude, this multilingual author now resides in Vancouver but writes in French.a) Shauna Singh Baldwinb) Ying Chenc) Joy Kogawa