ACT Book of the Year

WINNER 2007

SYNOPSIS

Sunday Menu is a collection of stories by leading Vietnamese writer Pham Thi Hoai. Hoai now lives in Berlin, but her stories are set in Hanoi in the mid 1990s, a time when communist Vietnam was feeling the dramatic impact of opening its market to international trade and investment.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Judging Panel commented that Du captured the richness and complexity of the original text, including its wry humour, giving the reader an insight into a culture at once both strange yet accessible.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ton-that Quynh-Du was born in Quang Tri, Vietnam, and grew up in the old imperial city of Hue, just south of the 17th parallel that divided Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam in 1954. In 1972 he received a Colombo Plan scholarship and came to study in Australia. He has worked as a translator and court interpreter and has taught at Deakin University, Monash University and The Australian National University. His translation of Pham Thi Hoai's novel, Crystal Messenger, won the 2000 Victorian Premier's Award for literary translation.

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