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Monique Truong


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Monique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Truong left Vietnam for the United States in 1975. She served in the past as an associate fiction editor for the Asian Pacific American Journal, a literary publication of the Asian American Workshop based in New York City. [close] Monique T.D. Truong (born 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Truong left Vietnam for the United States in 1975. She served in the past as an associate fiction editor for the Asian Pacific American Journal, a literary publication of the Asian American Workshop based in New York City.
 

Awards: PEN (2004)

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
December 2024

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Mai's Ao Dai
 
Novels
   The Book of Salt (2003)
   Bitter in the Mouth (2010)
   The Sweetest Fruits (2019)
   Fourteen Days (2023) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
   Watermark (1998) (with Barbara Tran)
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Books containing stories by Monique Truong
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Pretty Bitches (2020)
On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women
edited by
Lizzie Skurnick
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Charlie Chan Is Dead 2 (2004)
At Home in the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(Charlie Chan Is Dead, book 2)
edited by
Jessica Hagedorn

Awards
2004 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize : The Book of Salt

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