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Souvankham Thammavongsa

Thailand

Souvankham Thammavongsa's fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, the Paris Review and more.

Her collection of short stories, How to Pronounce Knife, won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, and her poetry has won numerous prizes.

Born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand, she was raised and educated in Toronto. Pick a Colour is her first novel.

Awards: Giller (2025) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

September 2025

Pick a Colour

Novels

Pick a Colour (2025)

Collections

   Small Arguments (poems) (2003)
   Light (poems) (2013)
   Cluster (poems) (2019)
   How to Pronounce Knife (2020)
   The 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (poems) (2021)
   Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (poems) (2021)

Books containing stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa

The Best American Short Stories 2023 (2023)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Min Jin Lee

Anonymous Sex (2022)
edited by
Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019 (2019)
(O. Henry Prize Stories)
edited by
Laura Furman

More books

Awards

2025 Giller Prize : Pick a Colour

Award nominations

	2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : How to Pronounce Knife
	2020 Giller Prize (shortlist) : How to Pronounce Knife

Souvankham Thammavongsa recommends

Code Noir (2024)
Canisia Lubrin
"A singular achievement."

The Adult (2023)
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"Brilliant, a true original."

Call and Response (2023)
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"The debut of a major talent."

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