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Taste: 22-24 March 2024

Writers

Kim Thúy

Québec



Kim Thúy left Vietnam with the Boat People at the age of ten and settled in Québec with her family. A graduate in translation and law, she worked as a dressmaker, interpreter, lawyer, and as chef and owner of a restaurant, before becoming a writer. Kim Thúy has won a number of awards, including the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010, and she was one of four finalists for the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2018. She is a Knight of the National Order of Québec. Her books, which have sold more than 850,000 copies worldwide, have been translated into 31 languages in 43 different countries. Kim Thúy now lives in Montréal as a full-time writer.

Kim Thúy a quitté le Vietnam avec les boat people à l’âge de dix ans et s’est installée avec sa famille au Québec. Diplômée en traduction et en droit, l’écrivaine a travaillé comme couturière, interprète, avocate et chef-propriétaire de restaurant. Kim Thúy a reçu plusieurs prix, dont le Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général 2010, et a été l’une des quatre finalistes du Nobel Alternatif en 2018. Elle est chevalière de l'Ordre national du Québec. Ses livres, dont les ventes montent à plus de 850 000 copies partout dans le monde, sont traduits en 31 langues et 43 pays et territoires. Kim Thúy vit à Montréal et se consacre à l’écriture.


>> Kim Thúy will be present at the opening evening (22nd March, 7pm, Alliance Française) and at the first panel “Bitter-Sweet: Tastes and Sensations” (23rd March, 10.30am, Dublin Castle)

Other writers

We welcome this year 12 writers of French, English and Irish languages


Suad Aldarra

Ireland / Syria

Sheila Armstrong

Ireland

Pierre Assouline

France

Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam

France

Mahi Binebine

Morrocco

Marina Carr

Ireland

Oscar Coop-Phane

France

Diarmuid Johnson

Ireland

Ciara Ní É

Ireland

Eimear Ryan

Ireland

Pascale Pujol

France





Presented by

Alliance Française Dublin
French Embassy in Ireland
Dublin Unesco

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