Denise Chong

Denise Chong is a Canadian writer and economist.

Born Vancouver, British Columbia, Chong was raised in Prince George. She worked as an economist with the Department of Finance. From 1980 to 1984, she served in the Prime Minister's Office as an economics advisor to late Pierre Trudeau.

Her career in writing began with the discovery of her family's roots in China, which led to her memoir, The Concubine's Children: Portrait of a Family Divided, which won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 1994, the Edna Staebler Creative Non-Fiction prize, and the VanCity Book Prize, and was for 93 weeks on the bestseller list of The Globe and Mail. Her adaptation of her memoir for the stage premiered at Nanaimo's Port Theatre in 2004. Her second book is The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War. Both books were finalists for the Governor-General's Literary Non-Fiction Award, have been translated into several languages.

Chong lives in Ottawa, Ontario and is married to CTV reporter Roger Smith and her two children Jade and Kye.

External links

• Interview with Author Denise Chong
• Cancity Women's Book Award