Kerri Sakamoto

Canadian novelist. Winner, Engel Findley Award, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Canada-Japan Literary Awards. Finalist, Gov-General's Award. Latest: Floating City.

[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

Oops... I won this. Pinching myself to be in the company of past winners. Thank you @writerstrust, jury members, sponsor Donald Schmitt, @KnopfCA + my brilliant family, friends, agents & #canlit community! #WTAwards | https://t.co/lElnIYubz1

[Dundurn Press @dundurnpress]

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — @KerriSakamoto

THE NAIL THAT STICKS OUT by Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann shows us how a community triumphed over adversity and rebuilt their lives: https://t.co/O02VOKfV95

#Memoir #Nonfiction #BookRecs #Canada

[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

"[Trump] compared his supporters who were arrested, convicted and imprisoned for their actions at the Capitol to the victims of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II."

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[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

#TIFF24 was a showcase for compelling films from all over the world. I was honoured to be a member of the NETPAC Jury for Asia-Pacific films. We selected The Last of the Sea Women. Congratulations to director @suebacca!

[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

Excited to be on this #TIFF24 jury!

[TIFF: The Market @TIFF_TheMarket]

The NETPAC Award, presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema, goes to the best first or second film by emerging Asian or Pacific Islander filmmakers.

The #TIFF24 NETPAC Jury, chaired by Dr. Vilsoni Hereniko, includes Hannah Fisher and Kerri Sakamoto.

[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

Honoured to moderate two panels on groundbreaking Japanese-Canadian films at Kokoro: Films for the Heart, Mind & Spirit, organized by the @TNajc. Congratulations and thanks!

[julieturkewitz @julieturkewitz]

“Everyone says the same thing,” said Leonela Colmenares, 28, a Venezuelan opposition activist. “If Maduro wins, they are leaving.”

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[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

I'm excited to work on this important project, with these amazing people!

[Vehicule Press @VehiculePress]

Very proud to be working alongside Signal Editions editor @michaelprior06, @KerriSakamoto, @MiaOhki, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, and Kyle Yakashiro on this important project.

Grateful for the support of the Japanese Candian legacies Fund

[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

One of the greats. I deeply admire her work. RIP Alice Munro.

[Kim Fahner @modernirish]

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“The work of a writer is not understanding, but empathy.”

[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

I'm biased but this is delightful!

[Vancouver Public Library @VPL]

Where are you floating to? ☁️

#Bookface #BookfaceFriday @KerriSakamoto

[Kerri Sakamoto @KerriSakamoto]

@laurenoyler @NewYorker whatever it is, i have it too.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[Ontario Chamber @OntarioCofC]

Our incoming President & CEO, @DanTisch, delivered a thoughtful keynote at @TLNTV’s 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadian Awards, emphasizing the importance of supporting a diverse & inclusive economy & the value of partnerships in driving economic growth. https://t.co/PV7Ag8wWHo