Hoa Pham is an Australian author of Vietnamese descent.
Biography
Pham was born in Hobart after her parents arrived there during the 1970s to study. She lives in
Melbourne
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Pham's most recent novel is ''The Lady of the Realm'', published in 2017. Her novel ''The Other Shore'' was a co-winner of Seizure's
Viva la Novella
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2 competition. Her first novel, ''Vixen'' led her to win the 2001 Sydney Morning Herald's Young Writer of the Year award.
''Vixen'' also was a finalist for the 2000
Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel but lost to
Juliet Marillier
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Biography
Juliet Marillier was educated at the University of Otago, where she graduated with a BA in languages and a ...
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Son of the Shadows
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She was the founding editor of ''Peril'', an online journal for Asian Australians.
Bibliography
Novels
*''Quicksilver'' (1998)
*''Vixen'' (2000)
*''The Other Shore'' (2014)
*''Wave'' (2015)
*''Lady of the Realm'' (2017)
*Empathy (2022)
Children's books
* ''No-one Like Me'' (1998)
* ''49 Ghosts'' (1998)
Short stories
*"Reality" (1994) in ''
Aurealis
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History and profile
''Aurea ...
'' #13, (ed.
Stephen Higgins
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Higgins joined the IRS ...
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Dirk Strasser
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*"On the Continent" (1998) in ''Aurealis'' #20/21 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
* ''Yolk'' (2007)
* ''Heroic Mother'' (2008)
* ''Immolation''
* ''Mara''
Plays
* ''Silence'' (2008–2010): about the secrets and spirits that haunt us from within. A family reunited by a death anniversary have to face the possessiveness of history and put the past to rest. Silence is on the
Victorian Certificate of Education
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drama in 2010 Silence was presented at
a Mama Theatre (Melbourne)in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
* ''I could be you'' (2009–2010): a short ten-minute play in the Melburnalia 2 series in 2009, and will be expanded into a full-length play for the
Melbourne Fringe Festival
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in 2010.
References
External links
Hoa Pham's web sitePeril: A Journal for Asian Australians
Australian people of Vietnamese descent
Australian women writers
Australian writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Hobart
People from Melbourne
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