Jon Shirota
Jon Shirota nasceu e foi criado em Maui, Havaí. Ele é autor de dois romances, Lucky Come Hawaii e Pineapple White. Ambos foram adaptados para peças de teatro e receberam prêmios. Além de outras bolsas e prêmios para dramaturgia, Jon, em 2005, recebeu uma bolsa de intercâmbio de artistas criativos da Comissão de Amizade Japão/EUA e do National Endowment for the Arts.
Atualizado em fevereiro de 2008
Stories from This Author
Discovering “Voices from Okinawa”
6 de Fevereiro de 2008 • Jon Shirota
My father came to Hawaii from Okinawa in 1907 as an indentured laborer for a sugar plantation company. My mother followed in 1910 as a picture bride and then also became a laborer. When their children began going to school, they both learned to read and write Japanese and English. They dreamed of one day returning home wealthy, but that day never came. The elusive pot of gold under the rainbow, neither kind nor cruel, was indifferent to them. In …
