Kim Thuy Visits Mason to Discuss Immigrant and Refugee Literature
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, #240A
On Wednesday, September 12, the Cheuse Center is proud to welcome Canadian writer Kim Thuy as part of the George Mason English Department’s Lunch Series. She will be discussing the difference between immigrant and refugee literature in the Johnson Center, Room 240A.
Kim Thúy was born in 1968 in Saigon, Vietnam, but fled with her family a decade later, eventually settling in Quebec. She earned degrees from the Université de Montréal in linguistics and translation (1990) and law (1993) and has worked as a translator, interpreter, lawyer, food commentator and restaurateur. Thúy was the proprietor of a restaurant called Ru de Nam. Her debut novel Ru won the Canadian Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 2010. Thúy recently published a cookbook in French: Le secret des Vietnamiennes (Montréal: Trécarré, 2017).
