Background
Gary Pak was born and raised in Hawaii.
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Pak graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor and from University of Hawaii with an Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy.
Career
Pak has been noted as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers. Growing up in Hawaii, Pak said his first language is Pidgin English. Some of Pak"s novels are based on the true stories from his family.
His novel A Ricepaper Airplane is based on an incident related with his mum in the setting of a sugarcane 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 television series, Plantation Children: 2nd-generation Koreans in Hawai"i.
Pak was a recipient of Fulbright Fellow.
