2014 GG Podcast Interview with Kim Thuy

In this episode of the 2014 GG Podcast, host Paul Kennett speaks with GG winner Kim Thúy about her most recent novel, Mãn, in this live recording during the 19th annual Wordfest.

Mãn has three mothers: the one who gave birth to her, the nun who took her in, and her beloved Maman, whose life was irrevocably upended by war. When Mãn is of age, she marries a Vietnamese restaurateur who now lives in Montreal. Discovering that she is a natural chef, Mãn quietly practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are suffused with memory and emotion, that evoke place and time and that even bring her customers to tears.

Kim Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes herself to writing.

Each year Wordfest selects and interviews writers from its annual Festival who have received a GG award in various categories.

The interviews explore the writing process, the impact of winning a Governor General’s Literary Award and the contribution of the literary arts to Canada’s cultural landscape.

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