Alice Pung
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| Alice Pung | |
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| Alice Pung on Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012
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| Born | 1981 Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Notable works | Growing Up Asian in Australia Unpolished Gem |
| Notable awards | Numerous |
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Alice Pung (born 1981) is an Australian writer, editor and lawyer. She wrote the memoir Unpolished Gem[1][2][3][4] and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia.
Pung is a practicing solicitor and has worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall at the University of Melbourne.
Life
Pung was born in Footscray and grew up in Braybrook, attending local schools including Christ the King College, a Catholic school for girls. Her parents are Chinese who immigrated to Cambodia then fled to Australia as asylum seekers.[5]
Writing career
Pung's first book, Unpolished Gem, won the 2007 Newcomer of the Year Award in the Australian Book Industry Awards.[6] Her follow-up memoir, Her Father's Daughter, was published in 2011.
Pung has attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
Works
Novels
- Laurinda (2014)
Memoir
- Unpolished Gem (2006)
- Winner- Australian Newcomer of the Year in the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards
- Shortlisted - Australian Biography of the Year and Australian Book of the Year in the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards
- Shortlisted - 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
- Shortlisted - 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
- Shortlisted - 2007 Age Book of the Year Awards
- Shortlisted - 2006 Colin Roderick Award
- Shortlisted - 2007 The Westfield/Waverley Library Award for Literature
- Her Fathers Daughter (2011)
- Winner of the Non-Fiction Prize in the 2011 Western Australian Book Awards
- Shortlisted in the 2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
- Shortlisted in the 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
- Shortlisted in the 2012 Queensland Literary Awards
Children's books
- Our Australian Girl: Meet Marly (2015)
- Our Australian Girl: Marly's Business (2015)
- Our Australian Girl: Marly and the Goat (2015)
- Our Australian Girl: Marly walks on the Moon (2016)
Edited collections
Articles
- "A sacrifice shouldered, a loyalty pledged beyond words", 30 Sept 2007 The Age
- "Shunned in a strange land, we should offer them more" 17 August 2008 The Age
- "It's time to embrace the 'f' word" 28 October 2008 The Age
Awards
- Non-Fiction Prize in the 2011 Western Australian Book Awards for Her Father's Daughter
- Australian Newcomer of the Year in the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards for Unpolished Gem[7]
References
- ↑ http://booklistonline.com/Unpolished-Gem-Alice-Pung/pid=2938982
- ↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alice-pung/unpolished-gem/
- ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/memories-of-relative-unease-20110819-1j20v.html
- ↑ https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2011/september/1314947772/brenda-walker/her-father-s-daughter-alice-pung
- ↑ Interview with Alice
- ↑ http://abiawards.com.au/history/
- ↑ http://abiawards.com.au/history/
