WAYSON CHOY'S first novel, The Jade Peony, spent six months on The Globe and Mail's national bestseller list, shared the Trillium Book Award for best book in 1995, and won the 1996 City of Vancouver Book Award. All That Matters, a companion novel to The Jade Peony, won the Trillium Book Award in 2004 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Giller Prize. In 1999, Choy's first memoir, Paper Shadows, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize. In 2000, he won the Edna Staebler Award for Non-fiction. Choy's most recent book is a memoir, Not Yet.
