Canada

While many of us in the U.S. were loading ourselves on food and familial matters, Lý Kim Thúy, whose first book Ru reached literary acclaim last year in Quebec and France, made history by becoming the first Vietnamese to receive the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Awards of Canada on November 25th, 2010. For her “poetic” and “powerfully written” autobiographical novel describing an incredible adventure from …(read more)