Monique Truong

Monique Truong
Native name
Monique T.D. Truong
Born (1968-05-13) May 13, 1968 (age 56)
Saigon, South Vietnam
OccupationWriter, essayist
LanguageEnglish
Education
Notable awardsYoung Lions Fiction Award (2004)
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University[1] and Columbia University School of Law.[2] She has written multiple books, and her first novel, The Book of Salt, was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. It was a national bestseller, and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award.[3] She has also written Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction.

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