Vivian Pham

Vivian Pham (/vɪvi.ən/; born October 22, 2000) is a Vietnamese-Australian author. In 2021 she won The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists Award and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year for her work.

Her first book, The Coconut Children, published in 2020 by Vintage Australia, an imprint of Penguin Books is set in 1990s Cabramatta. The novel won her recognition as one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists as well as the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards.[1][2][3] It was also shortlisted for both the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction[4] and the Voss Literary Prize in 2021.[5]

References

  1. ^ "2021 ABIA winners". www.penguin.com.au.
  2. ^ Wood, Stephanie (28 February 2020). "Inspired by her father's escape, teenage debut novelist Vivian Pham is set to become a voice of her generation". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. ^ "Vivian Pham on western Sydney, fan-fiction and The Coconut Children: 'I hope it's universal'". The Guardian. 28 February 2020.
  4. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Voss Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.


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