Background
Pung was born in Footscray and grew up in Braybrook, attending local schools including Christ the King College, a Catholic school for girls.
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Meet Marly: Marly: Book 1 (Our Australian Girl)
( It's 1983 and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshin...)
It's 1983 and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School. But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn't make things easy, and when Marly's cousins come to stay and end up at the same school, her friends make fun of them. How can Marly stay loyal to her cousins and keep her school friends as well?
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Laurinda
( When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first...)
When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the enormous sign in iron cursive letters spelling out LAURINDA. No "Ladies College" after it, of course; the name was meant to speak for itself. Laurinda is an exclusive school for girls. At its secret core is the Cabinet, a trio of girls who wield power over their classmates - and some of their teachers. Entering this world of wealth and secrets is Lucy Lam, a scholarship girl with sharp eyes and a shaky sense of self. As she watches the Cabinet at work, and is courted by them, Lucy finds herself in a battle for her identity and integrity. Funny, feisty and moving, Laurinda explores Lucy's struggle to stay true to herself as she finds her way in a new world of privilege and opportunity. "Alice Pung totally nails it with Laurinda. Funny, horrifying, and sharp as a serpent's fangs."-John Marsden
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Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me
(After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the kill...)
After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir—already an award-winning bestseller when it was published in Australia—Alice grows up straddling two worlds, East and West, her insular family and the Australia outside. With wisdom beyond her years and a keen eye for comedy in everyday life, she writes of the trials of assimilation and cultural misunderstanding, and of the tender but fraught relationships between three generations of women trying to live the Australian dream without losing themselves. Unpolished Gem is a moving, vivid journey about identity and the ultimate search for acceptance and healing, delivered by a writer possessed of rare empathy, penetrating insight, and undeniable narrative gifts. Download a revised version of the Pung and Chia family trees that appear in Unpolished Gem.
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Marly Walks on the Moon: Marly: Book 4 (Our Australian Girl)
( It's 1983 and baby mania has struck Marly's house with ...)
It's 1983 and baby mania has struck Marly's house with the arrival of her baby brother. But Marly never realized that a new baby would take up so much of everyone's time! No one's helping her with her costume for the school concert. Marly's secret plan is to perform the Moonwalk, the dance she's been practicing all year. But will she be ready?
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Growing Up Asian in Australia
(Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsid...)
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great-grandfather's Chinese village. Here are well-known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Including: Shaun Tan, Jenny Kee, Annette Shun Wah, Anh Do, Khoa Do, John So, Simone Lazaroo, Christopher Cyrill, Jason Yat-Sen Li, Sunil Badami, Quan Yeomans, Caroline Tran, Tom Cho, Vanessa Woods and many more...
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Marly walks on the Moon: Our Australian Girl
( It's 1983... and baby mania has struck Marly's house wi...)
It's 1983... and baby mania has struck Marly's house with the arrival of her baby brother. But Marly never realised that a new baby would take up so much of everyone's time! No one's helping her with her costume for the school concert. Marly's secret plan is to perform the Moonwalk, the dance she's been practising all year. But will she be ready? Follow Marly on her adventure in the final book of four stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds.
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Ungeschliffener Diamant (edition fünf 11) (German Edition)
(»Ungeschliffener Diamant«, 2007 als bestes australisches ...)
»Ungeschliffener Diamant«, 2007 als bestes australisches Debüt ausgezeichnet, erzählt von den Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens in einer globalisierten Welt: Als Tochter chinesisch-kambodschanischer Einwanderer wächst Alice mitten in Melbourne zwischen Hausgöttern, Aberglauben und strengen Traditionen auf. Doch schon bald kommt ihr die Welt der Eltern exotischer vor als die neue Heimat. Mal ernst und verzweifelt, dann wieder augenzwinkernd ironisch entfaltet dieses erzählerische Juwel seinen unwiderstehlichen Charme.
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Meet Marly: Our Australian Girl (Book 1)
(It's 1983 in Sunshine, Melbourne, and funny, quick-thinki...)
It's 1983 in Sunshine, Melbourne, and funny, quick-thinking Marly is just trying to fit in. But being a 10-year-old boat refugee from Saigon doesn't make things easy. Especially when your cousins come to stay - permanently! Marly tries to teach them Australian ways, but as her school friends start making fun of her too, she is torn between her loyalties to her cousins and sticking up for what she knows is right, and wanting to fit in. To make matters worse, Marly discovers she has accidentally named herself after one of Michael Jackson's brothers...
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My First Lesson: Stories Inspired by Laurinda
(''The stories in this anthology are special because they ...)
''The stories in this anthology are special because they capture the school experience with rare authenticity. These are not adults writing about teenagers, but real young adult writers.'' -Alice Pung. Award-winning author Alice Pung has selected 25 diverse stories written by high school students inspired by her bestselling YA novel, Laurinda. The collection features an impressive range of genres by exciting new voices, exploring themes as varied as intergenerational friendship, cultural identity, bullying and heartbreak. From epiphanies on an African safari to trying to cope with the death of a parent, from a prank gone wrong to finding love in unexpected places, the stories in My First Lesson are vivid and imaginative, funny and surprising, poetic and moving. Proceeds from this book will be donated to Room to Read.
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Alice Pung
Edit ProfileEducation
Pung has attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
Career
She wrote the memoir Unpolished Gem and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia. Pung is a practicing solicitor and has worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall at the University of Melbourne. Her parents are Chinese who immigrated to Cambodia then fled to Australia as asylum seekers.
Her follow-up memoir, Her Father"s Daughter, was published in 2011.
Shortlisted in the 2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Shortlisted in the 2012 NSW Premier"s Literary Shortlisted in the 2012 Queensland Literary.
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Ungeschliffener Diamant (edition fünf 11) (German Edition)
(»Ungeschliffener Diamant«, 2007 als bestes australisches ...)
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Laurinda
( When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first...)
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Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me
(After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the kill...)
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My First Lesson: Stories Inspired by Laurinda
(''The stories in this anthology are special because they ...)
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Meet Marly: Our Australian Girl (Book 1)
(It's 1983 in Sunshine, Melbourne, and funny, quick-thinki...)
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Marly Walks on the Moon: Marly: Book 4 (Our Australian Girl)
( It's 1983 and baby mania has struck Marly's house with ...)
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Growing Up Asian in Australia
(Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsid...)
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Meet Marly: Marly: Book 1 (Our Australian Girl)
( It's 1983 and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshin...)
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Marly walks on the Moon: Our Australian Girl
( It's 1983... and baby mania has struck Marly's house wi...)
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Ungeschliffener Diamant (edition fünf 11) (German Edition)
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