Hoa Pham Hoa Pham i(A46 works by) (a.k.a. Hoa Pham-Davis)
Born: Established: 1972 Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Vietnamese
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BiographyHistory

Hoa Pham was born in Australia of Vietnamese descent. She was awarded a Masters Degree in Psychology and has worked as a student adviser at the University of Melbourne. In 1999 she participated in a mentorship scheme funded by the Australia Arts Council at the Varuna Writers' Centre and was a contributor to The Women's Power Handbook edited by Joan Kirner and Moira Rayner. In 2007 she was an Asialink Literature Resident in Vietnam. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Melbourne, and in 2011 was studying for a doctorate in writing at the University of Western Sydney. She also edits an Asian-Australian on-line journal, Peril.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 recipient Varuna Fellowships Varuna Residential Fellowships for ‘Being’
2020 shortlisted Viva La Novella Award for 'Empathy'.
2009 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Six week residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, 2010

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Empathy Cambridge : MIT Press , 2023 25428269 2023 single work novel science fiction

'A science-fiction novel involving clones, a psychic, and empathy as a recreational drug.

'We have always been we. Then they forced us to become you and I...

'Empathy consists of two stories told in parallel.

'Vuong is one of five Vietnamese clones that have come of age at 25. The Department in Hanoi is allowing them to meet after being separated for twenty years. Lian has murdered her foster father after being forced to eat meat. Geraldine is dying of cancer in Australia. Giang and Khanh were brought up together as twins in New Zealand and are telepathic. They have been used for research over their lifetimes. Vuong discovers that the data kept on all of them has been used to develop empathy, the latest party drug.

'My meets Truong in Berlin who introduces her to empathy which makes the user supersensitive to other people's feelings. My's mother is a cleaner at CHESS, a multinational chemical company, and My comes to believe her mother is ex-Stasi and an industrial spy for Vietnamese government. My comes down from the drug after hearing about the saturation point when the penetration of empathy would be such that the world's population would be pacified. She discovers that Truong is actually the one who is in the pay of the Vietnamese government and her mother is just a cleaner. She tries to out the conspiracy in the media but no one believes her...' (Publication summary)

2022 longlisted British Science Fiction Association Awards Novel
y separately published work icon The Other Shore Sydney : Seizure , 2014 7670510 2014 single work novella fantasy

'This book tells the story of Kim, a 16 year old psychic hired by the Vietnamese government to reunite the remains of the dead with their descendants. This is a delicate meditation on the nature of ghosts, belief and how the future is shaped by the past.' (Publisher's summary)

2014 winner Viva La Novella Award
y separately published work icon Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal Peril Asian Australian Journal; Peril : An Asian-Australian Arts and Culture Magazine; Peril : Asian-Australian Arts and Culture 2006 Melbourne : Asian Australian Journal , 2006- Z1299660 2006 periodical (39 issues) 'Peril is a new Asian-Australian website designed to build a critical mass of Asian-Australian art and cultural concerns. Our ambition is to have two core issues a year on the site with a forum board for people to chat and comment. Why Peril? From the so called Yellow Peril that labelled the wave of Chinese immigration in the 19th century. We are perilious and take risks but not in the way that the Pauline Hansons of the world think!' Source: http://www.asianaustralian.org/ (Sighted 23/8/2006).
2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

Literature Arts Projects for Organisations $11,870.00

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