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Alice Pung

Alice Pung’s memoir Unpolished Gem won the Australian Book Industry Association award for Newcomer of the Year and was short-listed for numerous other awards.

In 2008 she edited Growing Up Asian in Australia, which is now studied in high schools and universities around the nation.

A lawyer by trade, she contributes regularly to the Age, Monthly, Good Weekend and Best Australian Stories. She has also written plays, and been a writer in residence in Beijing (Peking University), Iowa University and Alaska. Alice’s next book will be out in 2011.

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Texts in the City: Growing Up Asian in Australia

Growing Up Asian In Australia contributor Benjamin Law discusses the text and its topic with Andrew McDonald.

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The Writers of Janet Clarke Hall

Literary alumni of the University of Melbourne's Janet Clarke Hall discuss memoir, fiction and their memories of JCH.


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