KAO KALIA YANG: I've read it to her, and I've translated the parts that I could without crying. There's the epilogue. And I said to her, Mom, I can never read this to you.

The Song Poet Kao Kalia Yang talked about her book The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father, in which she discusses her father’s life. She spok… September 18, 2016 ...

From the Tops of the Trees by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrations by Rachel Wada Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sept. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This October, Carolrhoda Books ®, an imprint of Lerner ...

Kao Kalia Yang talked about her book [The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father], in which she discusses her father's life. She spoke at the 2016 Wisconsin Book Festival, held at the Central Branch of ...

Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong-American writer who lives in St. Paul, made Minnesota Book Award history Tuesday when she won awards in three categories at the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards ceremony at the ...

Carver County Library is excited to feature Kao Kalia Yang in our Winter Author Series on the Library’s Facebook page on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 6:30 p.m. Yang will talk about her writing and her ...

Kao Kalia Yang's book. Relatives referred to her mother only as "Npis' wife." (Atria/TNS) Tswb gave birth to Yang in a Thai refugee camp, where the family lived for eight years before moving to ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Kao Kalia Yang's memoir, "The Song Poet", has been adapted as the first ever Hmong opera in the Minnesota Opera's 60-year history. Yang is a Minnesota native whose family ...

When Kao Kalia Yang’s mother was a child growing up in Laos, she lived a comfortable life. Her father was a prosperous merchant. She was the only Hmong girl in the village to go to school.

FARGO — Award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang will present an author talk featuring a meet-and-greet, writing prompt discussion and book signing at 10 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 10, at the downtown Main ...

Nov. 13—WORTHINGTON — Minnesota West Community and Technical College is set to host an enriching literary event featuring acclaimed Hmong-American author, Kao Kalia Yang at noon Nov. 29.

On Wednesday, May 5, Hmong-American writer Kao Kalia Yang graced campus for her first in-person event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to speak to and with Bethel community members.