Cynthia Kadohata

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Cynthia Kadohata
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Kadohata in 2014-2015
Born (1956-07-02) July 2, 1956 (age 66)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
OccupationWriter
Alma mater USC
Genre Children's and Young-adult literature
Notable works
Notable awards Whiting Award
1991
Newbery Medal
2005
PEN USA
2006
National Book Award
2013
ChildrenSammy
Website
www.cynthiakadohata.com

Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) [1] is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005. [2] She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2013 for The Thing About Luck. [3]

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Biography

Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois. [1] Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. She received a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California in 1979. [4] She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.

Kadohata started her writing career with short story submissions to magazines. Her first publication, titled Charlie O., was published in 1986 in The New Yorker. [5] Later stories were published in The Pennsylvania Review, Grand Street, and Ploughshares. [6]

Weedflower , her second children's book, was published in Spring 2006. It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II. Her third children's novel, Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam about the Vietnam War from a war dog's perspective, was published in January 2007 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Outside Beauty, another children's novel, was published in 2008. It is about a 13-year-old girl and her three sisters, all fathered by different men and what happens when she and her sisters are separated from each other after their mother gets into an accident.

At least two of Kadohata's books touch on the topic of chick sexing. The family of the main character in her first novel, 1989's The Floating World, and also the family of the protagonist in 2004's Kira-Kira are employed at chicken hatcheries separating male chicks from female. [7] Kadohata's inspiration was her own personal experience. Her father was a chick sexer during her childhood. [8]

As of January 2021, Kadohata lived in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, son, and dogs. [9]

Novels

Newbery Medal [2]
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Youth Literature [12]
PEN USA Award
California Young Reader Medal, 2011 [13]
North Carolina Children's Book Award, Ohio Buckeye Children's Book Award, Nebraska Golden Sower, Kansas William Allen White Children's Book Award, South Carolina Junior Book Award
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Youth Literature [15]

Short stories

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