Yasuko Thanh: “It always feels like we’re writing some kind of fiction”

April 11, 2019Arts, LifeAuthors, Book-Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Floating Like the Dead, Mistakes to Run With, Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, Writing, Yasuko Thanhstoryuntold

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If a writer’s greatest asset is life experience, then Yasuko Thanh has no shortage of material. The winner of 2009’s Journey Prize and 2016’s Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Vancouver Island-based Thanh left home at the age of 15 and lived on the streets of Victoria and Vancouver, where her most prized possession was … Continue reading Yasuko Thanh: “It always feels like we’re writing some kind of fiction” →