The National Association of Japanese Canadians is thrilled to share that Art Miki has been awarded the Canada-Japan Literary Award for his memoir, Gaman – Perseverance: Japanese Canadians’ Journey to Justice. Congratulations, Art! 

You can order your copy from the publisher here, or from your favourite local bookstore. 

From the Canada Council of the Arts announcement:

Mr. Art Miki is an active leader in the Japanese Canadian community, having served as president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) from 1984 to 1992. He led the negotiations to achieve a just redress settlement for Japanese Canadians interned during the Second World War. He and his family were forcibly relocated to Manitoba sugar beet farms in 1942. For his efforts, he has received the Order of Canada—this country’s highest recognition—as well as the Order of Manitoba and, recently, the Order of the Rising Sun, from the government of Japan.

The Canada-Japan Literary Awards “recognize the literary merit of books on Japan, on Japanese themes or on themes that promote mutual understanding between Japan and Canada, written by authors from Canada or translated from Japanese into English or French by translators from Canada.”

The Canada-Japan Literary Award is a nomination-based prize funded in part by the Government of Japan.