CBC Books | | Posted: June 27, 2018 9:14 PM | Last Updated: March 6, 2019
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Caption: Kim Thúy is a Vietnamese-Canadian writer. (Penguin Random House/Benoit Levac)
Kim Thúy is a Montreal-based award-winning novelist and short story writer. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, she and her family were among thousands who fled the country on boat after the fall of Saigon. They later settled in Quebec.
Thúy's acclaimed first novel, Ru, won the Governor General's Literary Award for French-language fiction and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2002. It also won Canada Reads 2015, when it was championed by Cameron Bailey. She also authored the novels Vi and Man.
Media Video | (not specified) : Kim Thuy's bestselling novel debut Ru
Caption: Ru is the poetic, autobiographical novel debut of Saigon-born, Montreal-based writer Kim Thuy. She talks to CBC about being a Vietnamese refugee arriving in Canada, taking on life's challenges and why her novel has sparked controversy in her homeland.
Media Video | (not specified) : Giller nominee Kim Thuy, author of Ru
Caption: Author Kim Thuy talks to CBC about her Giller-shortlisted book Ru, a memoir told in poetic vignettes that weave between her escape from Vietnam to her time in a Malaysian refugee camp to her new life in Canada.
Media Audio | All in a Weekend Montreal : Letter writing with author Kim Thuy
Caption: Governor-General's Award winner Kim Thuy is at the "Correspondances Eastman" in Quebec. It's a festival dedicated to the art of letter writing. Kim Thuy spoke about her own pen-pal experience at how it affected her career and her life.