Souvankham Thammavongsa
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Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection, How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Giller Prize and 2021 Trillium Book Award. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Granta. Pick a Colour is her first novel.
Writer's Festival Appearances
- Pick a Colour (2025)
- S07E04 (2025)
- Book Launch: Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (2021)
- The Art of the Short Story (2020)
- Day Six (2020)