Join us for a literary lunch at Capital M, brought to you by the 2010 Australian Writers' Week, an initiative of the Australian Embassy, Beijing. This is a chance meet and hear from three outstanding Australian writers - Alexis Wright, Linda Jaivin and Alice Pung.
Alice Pung was born in Melbourne to Chinese Cambodian parents. Her memoir, Unpolished Gem is a national bestseller and won the Australian Book Industry Newcomer Award 2007 and was shortlisted for numerous other prizes including the Victorian and NSW premiers' awards.
A lawyer by trade, she contributes regularly to publications such as Meanjin, the Age and the Monthly and is the editor of the popular anthology, Growing Up Asian in Australia. Pung has recently completed the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa and will publish her next book in 2010, which was conceived while on a writer's residency at the University of Peking in 2008. Unpolished Gem was voted one of Victoria's top 5 summer reads in the State Library of Victoria's Summer Read program.
Original article can be found HERE.
Alice Pung was born in Melbourne to Chinese Cambodian parents. Her memoir, Unpolished Gem is a national bestseller and won the Australian Book Industry Newcomer Award 2007 and was shortlisted for numerous other prizes including the Victorian and NSW premiers' awards.
A lawyer by trade, she contributes regularly to publications such as Meanjin, the Age and the Monthly and is the editor of the popular anthology, Growing Up Asian in Australia. Pung has recently completed the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa and will publish her next book in 2010, which was conceived while on a writer's residency at the University of Peking in 2008. Unpolished Gem was voted one of Victoria's top 5 summer reads in the State Library of Victoria's Summer Read program.
Original article can be found HERE.
