Monique Truong
Monique Truong (born May 13, 1968 in Saigon ) is an American writer of Vietnamese descent.
Life
Monique Truong fled to the USA with her parents in 1975, at the age of six, when Saigon fell at the end of the Vietnam War . She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law.
Works
- Truong made his debut in 2003 with the novel The Book of Salt , which was also published in German translation under the title Das Buch vom Salz . In it, she describes the fictional story of Gertrude Stein 's Vietnamese cook in the 1930s , about whose real person little is known. Translated from English by Barbara Rojahn-Deyk, Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006 ISBN 3-596-16993-3
- Bitter in the mouth - novel ; the English title Bitter in the Mouth was translated by Peter Torberg . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-406-59838-8
Awards
In 2004 Truong received the Stonewall Book Award for The Book of Salt and, along with two other authors, was awarded the Robert Bingham Scholarship from the American PEN Center to help them work on their second book.
Web links
- mostlyfiction.com - Review, author interview and excerpt from The Book of Salt (in English)
- Literature by and about Monique Truong in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author's Website (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Truong, Monique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saigon |