Kim Thúy

Kim Thúy left Vietnam with the boat people at the age of ten and settled in Québec with her family. A graduate in translation and law, she worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, and restaurateur before becoming a writer. She has received numerous awards, including the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award, and was one of four finalists for the Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018. Her books have sold more than one million copies worldwide and have been translated into 31 languages across 43 countries and territories. Kim Thúy lives in Montréal, where she devotes herself to writing.