Hiromi Goto





Hiromi Goto

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Hiromi’s first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms (1994), received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canada region and was co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Her short stories and poetry have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. Her second novel, The Kappa Child (2001), was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Regional Book, and was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award. Her first children’s novel, The Water of Possibility, was also published that year. Hopeful Monsters, a collection of short stories, was released in 2004. Her YA/Crossover novel, Half World (2009), was long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and received the 2010 Sunburst Award an...more


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It’s always an honour and pleasure to be interviewed by the The Bulletin; a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history and culture. John Endo Greenaway asks some very specific questions about Darkest Light ranging from process to content and it was interesting to respond to them.


We also talked about my moving to Toronto. Alas! At the time of the interview this was so! But quite recently I...

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Half World (Half World, #1)
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The Kappa Child
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Chorus Of Mushrooms
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Darkest Light (Half World, #2)
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Hopeful Monsters
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“She was responsible for the things she chose. That's all. She almost managed a tiny smile. It was simultaneously an incredible responsibility and almost nothing at all, she thought wonderingly.”
Hiromi Goto, Half World

“A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.”
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“To be able to bring change into a fixed world, [she] thought. There is power in that.”
Hiromi Goto, Half World

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