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How to Pronounce Knife 2021-2022
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About the MacEwan Book of the Year
Girlfriend on Mars 2024-2025
Bad Cree 2023-2024
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch 2022-2023
How to Pronounce Knife 2021-2022
Foe: A Novel 2020-2021
This Accident of Being Lost 2019-2020
Sweetland 2018-2019
Love Enough 2017-2018
Station Eleven 2016-2017
Mãn 2015-2016
Sisters Brothers 2014-2015
Indian Horse 2013-2014
The Cat's Table 2012-2013
The Bone Cage 2011-2012
The Golden Mean 2010-2011
Cellist of Sarajevo 2009-2010
Lullabies for Little Criminals 2008-2009
Sweetness in the Belly 2007-2008
Oryx and Crake 2006-2007
Black Bird 2005-2006
Deafening 2004-2005
Life of Pi 2003 - 2004
Monkey Beach 2002 - 2003
Mercy Among the Children 2001-2002
Chorus of Mushrooms 2000-2001
Englishman's Boy 1999-2000
Icefields 1998 - 1999
Medicine River 1997-1998
The MacEwan Book for 2021-2022 is Souvankham Thammavongsa's How to Pronounce Knife
Reviews
In Magazines
In Newspapers
Interviews and Videos
A curated list of interviews from Souvankham Thammavongsa's official website
Scholarly Anaylsis
the peer reviewed journal Canadian Literature, 2020 Issue 242 published out of UBC has several short review articles on Souvankham Thammavongsa's work
August, Timothy. "The Refugee, Recently: Souvankham Thammavongsa, Philip Huynh, and The Aesthetics of Heterogeneity." Canadian Literature, no. 246, 2021, pp. 40-60,182.
Themes and Background
Anderson, Wanni W., and Robert G. Lee. Displacements and Diasporas : Asians in the Americas. Rutgers University Press, 2005. EBSCO Host Ebook.
Chen, Charles P., and Tara K. Kennedy. Career Optimism and Self-Efficacy in Immigrants. Nova, 2018. EBSCO Host Ebook.
Fitzgerald Amy J. “A Social History of the Slaughterhouse: From Inception to Contemporary Implications.” Human Ecology Review, vol. 17, no. 1, July 2010, pp. 58–69.
Fox, Aaron A. “The Jukebox of History: Narratives of Loss and Desire in the Discourse of Country Music.” Popular Music, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 1992, pp. 53–72.
Hou, Feng, and Morton Beiser. “Learning the Language of a New Country: A Ten-Year Study of English Acquisition by South-East Asian Refugees in Canada.” International Migration, vol. 44, no. 1, Mar. 2006, pp. 135–165. EBSCOhost.
John S. Harding, et al. Wild Geese : Buddhism in Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. EBSCO Host Ebook.
Karpinski, Eva C. Borrowed Tongues : Life Writing, Migration, and Translation. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. EBSCO Host Ebook.
Samuel Noh, et al. “Perceived Racial Discrimination, Depression, and Coping: A Study of Southeast Asian Refugees in Canada.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 40, no. 3, Sept. 1999, pp. 193–207.
Sanaat, Sadaf, et al. “Health and Safety in Nail Salons: A Cross-Sectional Survey.” Annals of Work Exposures & Health, vol. 65, no. 2, Mar. 2021, pp. 225–229.
Saul, Joanne. Writing the Roaming Subject : The Biotext in Canadian Literature. University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2006. EBSCO Host Ebook.
Vang, Christopher Thao. Hmong Refugees in the New World : Culture, Community and Opportunity. McFarland, 2016.
Other Works by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Thammavongsa, Souvankham. “Can I Have That One?” Grain Magazine, vol. 42, no. 1, Fall 2014, pp. 83–86.
Thammavongsa, Souvankham. “On Meaning.” Arc Poetry Magazine, no. 86, Summer 2018, pp. 30–33.
Thammavongsa, Souvankham. “Poems.” Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literature and Cultural Studies, vol. 5, June 2016, pp. 93-94.
Thammavongsa, Souvahkham. “Say My Name: The Alchemical Magic of ‘Rumpelstiltskin.’” CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries, Fall 2020, pp. 14–15.
Thammavongsa, Souvankham. "Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads 'Good-Looking'." New Yorker. 23 February 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-authors-voice/souvankham-thammavongsa-reads-good-looking. Accessed 31 March 2021.
Thammavongsa, Souvankham. “There Are No Prizes.” Canadian Literature, no. 242, July 2020, pp. 142–143.
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