Alice Pung
| Alice Pung | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Notable works | Growing Up Asian in Australia Unpolished Gem |
| Awards | Numerous |
| Official website | |
Alice Pung is a writer, editor and lawyer. She wrote the memoir Unpolished Gem and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia.
She is a practicing solicitor, and has worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at at Janet Clarke Hall, the University of Melbourne.
[edit] Life
Pung was born in Footscray and grew up in Braybrook, attending local schools including Christ the King College, a Catholic school for girls. Alice's parents are Chinese who immigrated to Cambodia then fled to Australia as asylum seekers.[1]
[edit] Writing career
Pung's first book, Unpolished Gem, won the 2007 Newcomer of the Year Award in the Australian Book Industry Awards.[2] Her follow-up memoir, Her Father's Daughter, was published in 2011.
Alice has attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
