In the last story of Souvankham Thammavongsa’s debut collection, “How to Pronounce Knife,” a 14-year-old girl helps her hard-working mother pick worms at a hog farm. Having mastered an improvised ...

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Toronto’s Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the $20,000 Trillium Book Award for her debut novel “How to Pronounce Knife.” The Best Book in English prize was one of four awards given out in a virtual ...

Each year one Canadian fiction writer wins $100,000 as the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for literature. The winner this year began her... Feb 15, 2021 — Each year one Canadian fiction writer ...

A predator-prey dynamic is partly the subject of the collection, which subtly highlights people’s unequal footing in the arenas of race, class, gender, age and nationality. In “Paris”, the female ...

In a ceremony streamed live on Facebook, Souvankham Thammavongsa was awarded Canada's 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her collection of short stories How to Pronounce Knife. The book is published by ...

Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for 2020 for her book “How to Pronounce Knife.” In a celebratory ceremony that went on Monday night despite the challenges of a ...

“Edge of the World,” a new story by Souvankham Thammavongsa, will appear in her debut story collection, How to Pronounce Knife (available on April 21). To mark the story’s publication in The Atlantic, ...

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. The author and poet ...

"Don't speak Lao and don't tell anyone you are Lao," a father tells his daughter in the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's new collection, "How to Pronounce Knife." "It's no good to tell people ...