# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayson-choy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:35:26.720Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayson-choy"
name: "Wayson Choy"
slug: "wayson-choy"
description: "Wayson Choy was a Canadian novelist. Publishing two novels and two memoirs in his lifetime, he is considered one of the most important pioneers of Asian Canadian literature in Canada, and as an important figure in LGBT literature as one of Canada's first openly gay writers of colour to achieve widespread mainstream success."
tagline: "Canadian writer (1939–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-04-20"
deathDate: "2019-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45
  momentum:             11.53612403100775
  historical:           7.880670666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wayson_Choy"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "ويزون تشوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "ويزون تشوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayson_Choy"
    title: "Wayson Choy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayson_Choy"
    title: "Wayson Choy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayson_Choy"
    title: "Wayson Choy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayson_Choy"
    title: "Wayson Choy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayson_Choy"
    title: "Wayson Choy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%94%E7%B6%AD%E6%96%B0"
    title: "崔維新"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7976884"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump