Kim Thúy author biography, plus links to books by Kim Thúy.

Kim Thúy

Kim Thúy was born in Saigon and arrived in Quebec at age ten in 1978. She has degrees from the University of Montreal in linguistics and translation and in law, and lives in Montreal, where she now devotes herself to writing.Sheila Fischman is a two-time winner of both the Canada Council Prize for Translation and Columbia University's Felix-Antoine Savard Award, and has also received the Governor General's Award for Translation and the Molson Prize for the Arts.

Ru won Canada's coveted Governor General's Award in 2010 in its original Canadian debut in French

This biography was last updated on 11/27/2012.

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