Hoa Pham is an Australian author of Vietnamese descent.

Biography

Pham was born in Hobart after her parents arrived there during the 1970s to study. She lives in

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. Pham's most recent novel is 'Empathy', published in 2022. Her novel ''The Other Shore'' was a co-winner of Seizure's

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2 competition. Her first novel, ''Vixen'' led her to win the 2001 Sydney Morning Herald's Young Writer of the Year award. ''Vixen'' also was a finalist for the 2000 Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel but lost to

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''. She was the founding editor of ''Peril'', an online journal for Asian Australians.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Quicksilver'' (1998) *''Vixen'' (2000) *''The Other Shore'' (2014) *''Wave'' (2015) *''Lady of the Realm'' (2017) *Empathy (2022)

Children's books

* ''No-one Like Me'' (1998) * ''49 Ghosts'' (1998)

Short stories

*"Reality" (1994) in '' Aurealis'' #13, (ed.

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, Dirk Strasser) *"On the Continent" (1998) in ''Aurealis'' #20/21 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser) * ''Yolk'' (2007) * ''Heroic Mother'' (2008) * ''Immolation'' * ''Mara''

Plays

* ''Silence'' (2008–2010): about the secrets and spirits that haunt us from within. A family reunited by a death anniversary have to face the possessiveness of history and put the past to rest. Silence is on the

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drama in 2010
Silence was presented at a Mama Theatre (Melbourne)in 2008, 2009 and 2010. * ''I could be you'' (2009–2010): a short ten-minute play in the Melburnalia 2 series in 2009, and will be expanded into a full-length play for the

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in 2010.

References

External links

Hoa Pham's web site

Peril: A Journal for Asian Australians
Australian people of Vietnamese descent Australian women writers Australian writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Hobart Writers from Melbourne {{Australia-writer-stub