Alice Pung

Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning author from Naarm. Her Father's Daughter won the Western Australia Premiers' Award, and her novel Laurinda won the Ethel Turner Prize at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. One Hundred Days, Alice’s first novel for adults, was shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Award and has been optioned by Michelle Law for development as a film. Her non-fiction books Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter and Growing Up Asian in Australia have been set texts at schools and universities around Australia, Asia and the United States.

Alice is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University's School of Media and Communication, and the Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall, the University of Melbourne. In 2022, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature. She is also the author of several award-winning children’s books.

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