Tamara Payne, who co-authored the book with her father, the late Les Payne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who died in 2018, described it as "a bittersweet moment." Other winners included the Malcolm X biography The Dead Are Arising, which won for nonfiction. The judges praised the novel for being "by turns hilarious and flat-out heartbreaking" and for delivering "a bright, bold, gut punch." The stunned Yu, who had least expected to win and confessed to not having prepared an acceptance speech remarked, "I'm going to go melt into a puddle right now." Tamara Payne's Malcolm X biography won in the nonfiction catagory Image: AP Photo/picture alliance Written in the form of a screenplay, the novel features Willis Wu, an aspiring Asian actor in Hollywood who is often type-casted in bit roles like "disgraced son," "silent henchman," "striving immigrant" or "generic Asian man," but who yearns instead for the coveted main role of "Kung Fu Guy."
That story ended up being Interior Chinatown, which won the National Book Award for Fiction on Wednesday. This is a story you should try to tell'," he explained in an interview with AP.
I started thinking, 'This does still matter. "It seemed that reference to things in the past like the Chinese Exclusion Act (Ed: a racist law passed in the US in 1882), had relevance. That changed with Donald Trump's surprise election victory in 2016.
There was a time when author and TV writer Charles Yu wondered if there was a reason to tell an immigration story.
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