Alice Pung is the recipient of the WrICE 2016 Established Writer Fellowship, and will travel to China in 2016 with the WrICE program. She is an award-winning writer, journalist and essayist. She is one of Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year 2015. Alice Pung’s first book, Unpolished Gem, is an Australian bestseller which won the Australian Book Industry Newcomer of the Year Award and was shortlisted in the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Literary awards. Alice’s next book, Her Father’s Daughter, won the Western Australia Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Literary awards and the Queensland Literary Awards. Alice’s latest book, Laurinda has been shortlisted for numerous awards in 2015.
Alice Pung (Australia)
