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Truong, Monique
Monique Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and
moved to the United States at age six. She graduated
from Yale University and the Columbia University
School of Law, going on to specialize in intellectual
property. Truong coedited the anthology Watermark:
Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Her first
novel, The Book of Salt, a national bestseller, has
been awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the
Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature
Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among
other honors. Granting Truong an Award of
Excellence, the Vietnamese American Studies Center
at San Francisco State University called her "a pioneer
in the field, as an academic, an advocate, and
an artist." Truong now lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
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