Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman. Her newest novel Em (2020) will be released in English translation in the fall of 2021. The cookbook was published in English translation in 2019 as Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen: Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers (Appetite by Random House, 2019). Thúy recently published a cookbook in French: Le secret des Vietnamiennes (Montréal: Trécarré, 2017), that won the Taste Canada 2018 gold/or award in the French language category: Livres de cuisine régionale et culturelle. Thúy was named to the Ordre national du Québec in 2015. As of spring 2015, foreign rights to Ru have been made in twenty-five countries. Her first novel, Ru was initially published in French and was well-received in Canada and internationally. Thúy was the proprietor of a restaurant called Ru de Nam. She earned degrees from the Université de Montréal in linguistics and translation (1990) and law (1993) and has worked as a translator, interpreter, lawyer, food commentator and restaurateur. Kim Thúy Ly Thanh was born in Saigon, Vietnam, but fled with her family a decade later, eventually settling in Quebec.
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