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Kim Thuy, Vincent Lam, Eric Nguyen, & Thi Bui
Kim Thuy, Vincent Lam, Eric Nguyen, and Thi Bui converse with hosts Viet Thanh Nguyen and Philip Nguyen.
ABOUT THE GUESTS
Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in reality-based comics. It made over thirty best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’ top five picks. She illustrated the picture book, A Different Pond, written by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017), for which she won a Caldecott Honor. With her son, Hien, she co-illustrated the children’s book, Chicken of the Sea (McSweeney’s, 2019), written by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son, Ellison. Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California. She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about immigrant detention and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House.
Dr. Vincent Lam is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam, and was born in Canada. He did his medical training in Toronto, worked as an emergency physician, and now is an addictions medicine physician. He is currently assisting with the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Canada. Dr. Lam’s first work of fiction, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His novel, The Headmaster’s Wager, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2012 and the Commonwealth Prize in 2013. His non-fiction guide to influenza pandemics, The Flu Pandemic And You, received a Special Recognition Award in 2007 from the American Medical Writers’ Association. Dr. Lam is currently completing a novel which will be published in 2022.
Eric Nguyen earned an MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA), and the Tin House Writers Workshop. He is the editor in chief of diaCRITICS. He lives in Washington, DC. Things We Lost to the Water is his first novel.
Kim Thúy was born in Vietnam in 1968. At the age of 10 she left Vietnam along with a wave of refugees commonly referred to in the media as “the boat people” and settled with her family in Quebec, Canada. A graduate in translation and law, she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and chef-restaurant owner. She lives in Montreal and devotes her life to writing. Kim Thúy has received many awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010 for her novel Ru, and was one of the top 4 finalists of the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2018. Her books have sold more than 850,000 copies around the world and have been translated into 29 languages and distributed across 40 countries and territories.
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By Diasporic Vietnamese Artists NetworkKim Thuy, Vincent Lam, Eric Nguyen, and Thi Bui converse with hosts Viet Thanh Nguyen and Philip Nguyen.
ABOUT THE GUESTS
Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in reality-based comics. It made over thirty best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’ top five picks. She illustrated the picture book, A Different Pond, written by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017), for which she won a Caldecott Honor. With her son, Hien, she co-illustrated the children’s book, Chicken of the Sea (McSweeney’s, 2019), written by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son, Ellison. Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California. She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about immigrant detention and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House.
Dr. Vincent Lam is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam, and was born in Canada. He did his medical training in Toronto, worked as an emergency physician, and now is an addictions medicine physician. He is currently assisting with the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Canada. Dr. Lam’s first work of fiction, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His novel, The Headmaster’s Wager, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2012 and the Commonwealth Prize in 2013. His non-fiction guide to influenza pandemics, The Flu Pandemic And You, received a Special Recognition Award in 2007 from the American Medical Writers’ Association. Dr. Lam is currently completing a novel which will be published in 2022.
Eric Nguyen earned an MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA), and the Tin House Writers Workshop. He is the editor in chief of diaCRITICS. He lives in Washington, DC. Things We Lost to the Water is his first novel.
Kim Thúy was born in Vietnam in 1968. At the age of 10 she left Vietnam along with a wave of refugees commonly referred to in the media as “the boat people” and settled with her family in Quebec, Canada. A graduate in translation and law, she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and chef-restaurant owner. She lives in Montreal and devotes her life to writing. Kim Thúy has received many awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010 for her novel Ru, and was one of the top 4 finalists of the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2018. Her books have sold more than 850,000 copies around the world and have been translated into 29 languages and distributed across 40 countries and territories.