# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-thuy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:11.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-thuy"
name: "Kim Thúy"
slug: "kim-thuy"
description: "Kim Thúy Ly Thanh, CM CQ is a Vietnamese-born Canadian writer. Kim Thúy was born in Vietnam in 1968. At the age of 10 she left Vietnam along with a wave of refugees commonly referred to in the media as “the boat people” and settled with her family in Quebec, Canada. A graduate in translation and law, she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, and restaurant owner. The author has received many awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010, and was one of the top 4 finalists of the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2018. Her books have sold more than 850,000 copies around the world and have been translated into 31 languages and distributed across 43 countries and territories. Kim Thúy lives in Montreal where she devotes her time to writing."
tagline: "Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kim_Th%C3%BAy_(2021).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.92
  momentum:             4.20512520187493
  historical:           17.64640933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5342239/"
    handle:    "nm5342239"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كيم ثوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ким Тхуи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%82%8C%ED%88%AC%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "낌투이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%A2%D1%85%D1%8E%D0%B8"
    title: "Ким Тхюи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%BF%A0"
    title: "金翠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Th%C3%BAy"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460811"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1599718"
    title: "Kim Thúy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump