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Alice Pung

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Born

Australia

Website

https://www.alicepung.net/

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Fiction, Young Adult

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Alice was born in Footscray, Victoria, a month after her parents Kuan and Kien arrived in Australia. Alice’s father, Kuan - a survivor of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime - named her after Lewis Carroll’s character because after surviving the Killing Fields, he thought Australia was a Wonderland. Alice is the oldest of four - she has a brother, Alexander, and two sisters, Alison and Alina.

Alice grew up in Footscray and Braybrook, and changed high schools five times - almost once every year! These experiences have shaped her as a writer because they taught her how to pay attention to the quiet young adults that others might overlook or miss.

Alice Pung’s first book, Unpolished Gem, is an Australian bestseller which won the Australian Book Indus ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 17,660 ratings · 2,250 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Hundred Days 3.94 avg rating — 5,282 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laurinda 3.79 avg rating — 4,667 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unpolished Gem 3.61 avg rating — 2,775 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sunil Badami (Contributor), Amy Choi (Contributor) 3.64 avg rating — 1,213 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Father's Daughter 3.94 avg rating — 861 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be Careful, Xiao Xin! by Alice Pung (Goodreads Author), Sher Rill Ng (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 159 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Close to Home: Selected Writings 4.27 avg rating — 101 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet Marly (Our Australian Girl - Marly, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My First Lesson: Stories Inspired by Laurinda 3.40 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Millie Mak the Maker (Millie Mak, #1) by Alice Pung (Goodreads Author), Sher Rill Ng (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 86 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Alice Pung and 1 other person liked Julie's review of Millie Mak the Maker (Millie Mak, #1): "Alice Pung and the book cover pulled me in and I was not disappointed, a brilliant read. I hadn’t realised there were two stories in one volume, but appreciated the beauty of this volume with it’s wonderful design and modern greyscale illustrations. " Read more of this review »
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“I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged.”
― Alice Pung, Laurinda

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“Love was a verb with a certain amount of energy attached to it - a daily quota - and you had to choose on whom you wanted to spend this energy. That was love. That was why people had to pray for it. If it were not finite, no one would pine for love in their lives - they would just wait to receive or learn to give.”
― Alice Pung, Her Father's Daughter

tags: love, memoir

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“People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears.”
― Alice Pung, Laurinda

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