Caroline Vu Explained

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Caroline Vu is a Canadian novelist of Vietnamese heritage.[1]

Early life and education

Vu was born in 1959 in Dalat, Vietnam (South Vietnam) and grew up in Saigon. At the age of eleven, she immigrated with her mother and brother to Connecticut. The family later relocated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

She has degrees in political science from McGill University, in Psychology from Concordia University, and in medicine from the University of Montreal.[2]

Career

Vu's writings deal with issues of identity and memory, and immigration from Asia (especially Vietnam) to Canada. Her first novel, Palawan Story, was published by the Deux Voiliers Publishing collective in 2014.[3] [4] It won the 2016 Fred Kerner Book Award for the best book by a member of the Canadian Authors Association[5] and was a finalist for the 2014 Concordia University First Book Prize awarded by the Quebec Writers' Federation.[6] Palawan Story was translated and published in French by Les Éditions de la Pleine Lune in August 2017.[7]

The novel takes its name from the island of Palawan in the Philippines, where over half a million Vietnamese refugees were placed in a camp from 1979 to 1993.[8] It tells the story of a young girl named Kim who through a stroke of luck is able to leave the camp at Palawan and build a life for herself first in Connecticut and then in Montreal, struggling as an adult to comprehend the chaotic history of her homeland that she had glimpsed through the eyes of a child.

Vu's second novel, That Summer in Provincetown, was published in 2015 in English by Guernica Editions.[9] [10] In 2016, Les Éditions de la Pleine Lune published the French translation, Un été à Provincetown.[7] It is about three generations of a Vietnamese family who immigrate from Vietnam to Canada. As in Vu's first novel, Provincetown gives human insight into Vietnamese history.[1] [11] [12]

Vu has also published articles in a variety of newspapers, including The Medical Post, the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, The Geneva Times, and The Tico Times.[13]

Bibliography

Personal life

Vu practices medicine in Montreal, where she lives with her two daughters.[14] She is the widow of Mario Laguë, who was Canadian ambassador to Costa Rica from 2004 to 2007[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: McGIllis. Ian. July 15, 2020. Caroline Vu's That Summer in Provincetown digs deep into a Vietnamese family's past. live. 2021-11-18. montrealgazette. en-CA. https://web.archive.org/web/20150708192008/http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/books/caroline-vu-that-summer-in-provincetown-digs-deep-into-a-vietnamese-familys-past . 8 July 2015 .
  2. Web site: Caroline Vu. 2021-11-17. Pleine Lune. fr.
  3. "Sean Michaels emerges as a double QWF finalist; Two other writers pull off the coup of being named to the list twice". The Gazette (Montreal), 15 October 2014.
  4. Web site: Deux Voiliers Publishing's Palawan Story Page. 2021-11-17. publishing. en.
  5. News: Awards: Nino Ricci, Joe Denham, Caroline Vu among CAA Award winners. Quill and Quire. 23 June 2016.
  6. News: Quebec Writers' Federation releases literary award shortlists. 16 October 2014. Quill and Quire.
  7. Web site: Caroline Vu. 2021-11-18. Pleine Lune. fr.
  8. Web site: Refugee Camps. 2021-11-17. refugeecamps.net.
  9. "Secrets And War; New novel digs deep into Vietnamese family's complicated past". Calgary Herald, 18 July 2015.
  10. Web site: That Summer in Provincetown - Guernica Editions. 2021-11-18. www.guernicaeditions.com.
  11. Web site: Shaw. Ian Thomas. 2015-05-01. That Summer in Provincetown by Caroline Vu. live. 2021-11-18. ottawareviewofbooks. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20200815102914/https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/2015/05/01/That-Summer-in-Provincetown-by-Caroline-Vu . 15 August 2020 .
  12. Web site: Block. Irwin. 2015-10-30. Book review: That Summer in Provincetown. 2021-11-18. The Senior Times. en-US.
  13. Web site: Concordia alumna nominated for prestigious First Book Prize - The Concordian. 2021-11-17. en-CA.
  14. News: 8 July 2015. Caroline Vu's That Summer in Provincetown digs deep into a Vietnamese family's past. The Gazette. Montreal.
  15. Web site: 2014-08-27. Former expat in Costa Rica launches novel about Vietnam. 2021-11-22. The Tico Times Costa Rica News Travel Real Estate. en-US.

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