And I didn't want to think of poetry and fiction as things that were separate from each other. I didn't want to change the way in which I deal with the world. I decided to try fiction and see how everything that I learned with poetry would translate into fiction. Nobody was waiting for the fiction - I wanted to surprise people. How to Pronounce Knifewon the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. CBC Books named Thammavongsa a 2020 writer to watch. From a young man painting nails in a salon to a housewife learning English from soap operas, How to Pronounce Knife explores the tragedy and humour of the daily lives of immigrants. How to Pronounce Knife, her first work of fiction, is a collection of idiosyncratic and diverse stories. Henry Award and appeared in Harper's, Granta, The Paris Review and NOON. She has published four books of poetry, including 2019's Cluster. Souvankham Thammavongsa is an Ontario writer and poet. Her stories have won an O.
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