Vivian Pham (/vɪvi.ən/; born October 22, 2000) is a Vietnamese-Australian author. In 2021 she wo
The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists Award
and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year for her work. Her first book, ''The Coconut Children,'' published in 2020 by Vintage Australia, an imprint of

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is set in 1990s

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. The novel won her recognition as one of

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as well as the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the

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. It was also shortlisted for both the

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and the

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in 2021.

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