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Monique Truong
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Monique Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the United States at age six.
She graduated from Yale University and the Columbia University School
of Law, going on to specialize in intellectual property. Truong
co-edited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose,
and her essay “Welcome to America” was featured on National Public
Radio. She was awarded a prestigious Lannan Foundation Writing
Residency in 2001.
Her first novel, The Book of Salt,
has been awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book
Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the Young Lions Fiction
Award, among other honors. In 2004, she was also awarded a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for Writers.
Truong lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
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