Kim Huynh Kim Huynh i(A106775 works by) (a.k.a. Kim T. Huynh)
Born: Established: 1977
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Vietnam,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1979
Heritage: Vietnamese
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'Kim Huynh was born in Vietnam in 1977 and arrived in Australia with his family as a refugee in 1979. He grew up in Canberra working in the family bakery, largely detached from his Vietnamese relatives and heritage. In 1999 Kim set out to find out where he came from. He learnt to read Vietnamese, spent many hours interviewing his parents and traveled back to Vietnam on several occasions to speak to family and friends. His findings became the basis for a first-class honours degree and then a doctorate in international relations...'

'Kim won the Varuna Award for Manuscript Development in 2004. He lectures courses in refugee politics and political deception at the Australian National University.'

Source: HarperCollins website, http://www.harpercollins.com.au/
Sighted: 20/06/2007

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2011 recipient ACT Arts Grant to assist with costs of undertaking research for a book on the journey of a Sudanese refugee to Australia, in 2011 - $9,928
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Where the Sea Takes Us : A Vietnamese-Australian Story Sydney : Fourth Estate , 2007 Z1398193 2007 single work autobiography

'In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese families set out on perilous journeys in rickety boats to escape communist rule and seek out a better life. Kim Huynh's family was one of them.

'In this unique memoir, Kim traces his parents' precarious lives from their poor villages in central and south Vietnam, through relative affluence in Saigon, to their harrowing experiences after the American withdrawal and the fall of Saigon in 1975. As Kim explores his parents' stories, he unveils the tragedy, oppression and inner strength of ordinary people struggling to survive in a country beset by colonisation and ravaged by war.' (Publisher's blurb)
2008 shortlisted Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award
2007 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
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