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Monique Truong
American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1968 · age 58
Monique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her first novel, The Book of Salt, was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003.
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Awards
About this person
It was a national bestseller, and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She has also written Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction.
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The same award as Monique
Don LeeBoth received Asian American Literary Awards
Erin Entrada KellyBoth received Asian/Pacific American Awards for LiteratureMinal HajratwalaBoth received Asian American Literary Awards
Da ChenBoth received Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
Suketu MehtaBoth received Asian American Literary Awards
Cynthia KadohataBoth received Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature