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Woman Pung, Alice

Occupation: Lawyer and Writer

Written by Caitlin Stone, The University of Melbourne

Alice Pung was born in 1981 in Footscray, Victoria to Cambodian refugee parents. Her first book, the memoir Unpolished Gem, was published in 2006. In 2008, she edited Growing up Asian in Australia and in 2011 published her third book, Her Father's Daughter.

Published Resources

Videos

International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, On the Move 2011: Alice Pung (Writers in Motion: Decline and Recovery), 2011. http://youtu.be/6LZtfc7V2Mk. Details

Online Resources

'An Interview with Alice Pung', in Alice Pung, Interview Transcript, http://alicepung.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/interview_with_alice_pung.pdf. Details
Alice Pung, http://alicepung.com/blog. Details

See also

'Pung, Alice', The Australian Women's Register, National Foundation for Australian Women, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE5273b.htm. Details

Work on The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia was undertaken as part of the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP100200304).

Published by the Australian Women's Archives Project 2014
ISBN 978-0-7340-4873-8
http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0204b.htm

The Encyclopedia uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager, a tool developed by the eScholarship Research Centre, part of the University Library at the University of Melbourne.

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