The document provides biographical information about the author Kim Thuy Ly Thanh, including details about her life, career, famous works, bibliography, and awards. It discusses that she was born in 1968 in Saigon, Vietnam, earned degrees from Universite de Montreal in linguistics and law, worked as a translator and lawyer, and opened a Vietnamese restaurant in Montreal. Her debut novel Ru won awards including the 2010 Governor General's Award for French-language fiction. It also won Canada Reads in 2015.

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4. Life and career Of The Author
Kim Thuy Ly Thanh, (born
1968 in Saigon, South
Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-
born Canadian writer, whose
debut novel Ru won the
Governor General's Award
for French-languagefiction at
the 2010 Governor General's
Awards.
Thuy earned a
bachelor's degree from
the Universite de
Montreal in linguistics
and translation (1990),
and later earned a law
degree from the same
school (1993
Thuy worked as a
translator and
interpreter and was
later recruited by the
Montreal-based law
firm Stikeman Elliott
After moving back to
Montreal, Thuy opened a
restaurant called Ru de
Nam, where she
introduced modern
Vietnamese cuisine to
Montrealers.

5. In 2015, Thuy was one of
the recipients of the Top
25 Canadian Immigrant
Awards presented by
Canadian Immigrant
Magazine.
In 2017, Thuy was the
recipient of an Honorary
Doctorate from Concordia
University.
She was nominated for
the New Academy Prize in
Literature in 2018.

6. Famous Works Of The Author

7. Famous Work Of
The Author
Thuy's debut novel Ru won the Governor General's Award
for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's
Awards. An English edition, translated by Sheila Fischman,
was published in 2012.
An English edition, translated by Sheila Fischman, was
published in 2012. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for
the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2013 Amazon, ca
First Novel Award. The novel won the 2015 edition of
Canada Reads, where it was championed by Cameron
Bailey.
In 2016, Thuy published herthird novel, Vi. An English
translation, again by Fischman, was published in 2018. The
book was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2018
Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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The novel tells the tale of a woman, An Tinh Nguyen, born in
Saigon in 1968 during the Tet Offensive who immigrates to
Canada with her family as a child.
Set in Saigon during the Vietnam Wai Vi is bom into a family intent on protecting
het the youngest. Vi translates literally as "tiny precious microscopic," but as the
armed conflict rages around her, shaping her fate and that of her family's, Vi's
legacy becomes one of invisibility.
Man lives out the superficial plotlines of a fairy-tale princess. She is an orphan with
skin like a French dolls'and red lips,eventually arranged in maniagetoa man most
charming and promised, with him. a happily ever after, far away from her native
Vietnam in the foreiqn world that is Montreal, Canada.
In 2011, Thuy and Pascal Janovjak published a series of letters they
had exchanged. A toi ("To You") was the fruit of a literary love affair
between the Vietnamese-Canadian writer and French-Slovakian-
Swiss author.