Monique Truong

Monique Truong ( born 1968 in Saigon) is an American writer of Vietnamese descent.

Life

Monique Truong moved at the age of six years in the United States. She studied at Yale University and Columbia University School of Law.

Works

  • Truong debuted in 2003 with the novel The Book of Salt, which was also published in German translation under the title The Book of the salt. She describes the fictional story of the Vietnamese cook of Gertrude Stein in the thirties, is known about the real person little. Translated from the English by Barbara Rojahn - Deyk, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006 ISBN 3-596-16993-3
  • Bitter taste in the mouth - Roman; the English title Bitter in the Mouth was translated by Peter Torberg. Publisher C. H. Beck, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-406-59838-8

Awards

In 2004, Truong for The Book of Salt the Stonewall Book Award and was assisted by two other authors with the Robert Bingham Fellowship of the International PEN Association awarded, to support them at work on her second book.

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