Following where life leads you – Kim Thúy
Kim Thúy (born 1968 in Saigon, Vietnam)[1] is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ru won the Governor General’s Award for French language fiction at the 2010 Governor General’s Awards.[2] An English edition, translated by Sheila Fischman,[3] was published in 2012 and is a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[4] and the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Thúy spent her early childhood in Vietnam before fleeing with her parents as boat people[1] and settling in the Montreal suburb […]