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Gary Pak (born 1952) is a writer, editor and professor of English at University of Hawaii.〔(Pak's faculty profile )〕 Pak has been noted as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers.〔(Gary Pak: ''Language of the Geckos and Other Stories'' )〕 ==Biography== Gary Pak was born and raised in Hawaii. Pak graduated from Boston University with a BA and from University of Hawaii with an MA and a PhD. Growing up in Hawaii, Pak said his first language is Pidgin English. "My culture is from Hawaii; my parents’ and grandparents’ generations helped create that culture", he said during an interview with the Magazine of the University of Hawaii.〔(Local and Korean roots nourish UH writer Gary Pak )〕 Some of Pak's novels are based on the true stories from his family. His grandparents fled from Korea during World War II and came to the United States; in 1905, his grandmother worked on a sugar plantation at Hawaii. His novel ''A Ricepaper Airplane'' is based on an incident related with his mum in the setting of a sugar plantation. In his short story collection ''Language of the Geckos and Other Stories'', Pak's memorable portraits of Hawai'i's Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians increases cross-cultural understanding of Hawaiian life and culture. Pak was also the producer, play writer and editor of the Olelo Community TV series, ''Plantation Children: 2nd-generation Koreans in Hawai'i''. Pak was a recipient of Fulbright Fellow. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gary Pak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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