Monique Truong, fiction writer, will visit Villanova as part of the 13th Annual Literary Festival on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m., in Connelly Center.
Truong was born in Saigon and currently lives in New York City. Her second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, was recently released by Random House and focuses on Linda Hammerick, a young woman with a unique secret sense--she can "taste" words, which have the power to disrupt, dismay, or delight.
Her first novel, The Book of Salt, was a New York Times Notable Book. It won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the 7th Annual Asian American Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Britain's Guardian First Book Award. She is the recipient of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, Princeton University's Hodder Fellowship, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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