Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
Launch: Growing Up Asian in Australia
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Join Alice Pung and Black Inc. for the launch of Growing Up Asian in Australia. Contributors to this irreverent collection include Dr Cindy Pan, Kylie Kwong, Jenny Kee, Jason Yat-Sen Li, Caroline Tran, Quan Yeomans, Shaun Tan, Annette Shun Wah, Christopher Cyril, Simone Lazaroo, Anh and Kho Do, Vanessa Woods, Tom Cho, Hoa Pham, Sunil Badami, Shalini Akhil, plus many more.

Launch  |  Culture & Heritage, Life Writing
Participants
Alice Pung

When
Saturday, May 24 2008
17:30 - 19:00

Where
Bangarra Mezzanine
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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ALICE PUNG (INTERSTATE)Pung, Alice
Alice Pung is a writer and lawyer whose work has appeared in The Age, Good Weekend, The Monthly and Meanjin.

Her first book, Unpolished Gem, has become a national bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Colin Roderick Award, the Westfield/Waverley Library Award for Literature and won the 2007 Newcomer of the Year Award in the Australian Book Industry Awards. It was also selected for Books Alive 2007 and voted one of Victoria’s top 5 summer reads in the State Library of Victoria's Summer Read program.

Most recently, Alice has edited the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia.

also appearing at...
229: Writing and Research
279: Growing Up Asian in Australia